All of human history provides volumes of empirical evidence that the conservatives in any human population are the most ignorant and read the least by a large margin. If you had read anything about human social history you'd know that but it requires, you know, reading, so you don't. Odd that yes?
Well, that little bon-mot of ignorant fiction renders the hordes of Democrat-robot voters inhabiting the inner cities rather unexplainable, does it not? After all, the Democrat base is comprised of those who, when not burning and looting the cities or shooting each other, or protesting some imagined or media-implanted wrong, busy themselves "reading" the calendar anxiously awaiting their next EBT card and ADC check. I won't even bother detailing the unbelievable levels of sheer ignorance currently found in college grads among the Millennials and the rising generation from which the Democrats carve out a good segment of their support.
Though commonly referred to as a conservative in these confused times by the flocks of the less-than-schooled of which you appear a part, I am liberal in the most classical sense of the definition, as were the Founding Fathers, and am a voracious reader of all things.
Perhaps you could list some of these authoritative volumes of history to which you refer? I would be most curious to see the sources of your error.