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Can't help with much in this but I'm not sure I'd agree "stupid or poorly educated" would be my immediate assumption. Nothing is more boring than discussions of descriptive vs. prescriptive grammar, but I don't consider myself either of your adjectives above and might nevertheless be caught saying something like "He's better than me at basketball." Or simply, "He's better than me." Instead of, yes, the correct way. "He's better than I" sounds off. And I never, at the doorbell question "Who is it?" would say "It is I."
This is more contextual idiolect and the linguistic residue of having grown up in the South, I imagine.
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