Divorce rate by State: Massachusetts with the lowest divorce rate

[redherring]

Nevada with the highest. How exactly is "family values" defined down South? I wonder what would qualify for moral issues. Do democrats in the South have lower divorce rate? I can almost bet.
Not trying to trash anybody, but merely point out a fact. No offense.


http://www.divorcereform.org/94staterates.html
1 Massachusetts 14,530 2.4
2 Connecticut 9,095 2.8
3 New Jersey 23,899 3.0
4 Rhode Island 3,231 3.2
5 New York 59,195 3.3
Pennsylvania 40,040 3.3
7 Wisconsin 17,478 3.4
North Dakota 2,201 3.4
9 Maryland 17,439 3.5
10 Minnesota 16,217 3.6
Louisiana *** 3.6
12 Illinois 43,398 3.7
13 District of 2,244 3.9
Columbia
Iowa 10,930 3.9
15 Nebraska 6,547 4.0
Vermont 2,316 4.0
17 Michigan 38,727 4.1
18 South Dakota 3,022 4.2
South Carolina 15,301 4.2
Hawaii 4,979 4.2
21 California *** 4.3
22 Maine 5,433 4.4
New Hampshire 5,041 4.4
24 Ohio 49,968 4.5
25 Virginia 30,016 4.6
26 Kansas 12,093 4.7
Utah 8,999 4.7
28 Delaware 3,385 4.8
29 Montana 4,153 4.9
30 Missouri 26,324 5.0
West Virginia 9,179 5.0
32 North Carolina 36,292 5.1
Colorado 18,795 5.1
34 Georgia 37,001 5.2
35 Oregon 16,307 5.3
36 Texas 99,073 5.4
37 Alaska 3,354 5.5
38 Washington 29,976 5.6
39 Mississippi 15,212 5.7
40 Kentucky 22,211 5.8
Arizona 23,725 5.8
42 Florida 82,963 5.9
43 New Mexico 9,882 6.0
44 Idaho 7,075 6.2
Alabama 26,116 6.2
46 Indiana *** 6.4
47 Wyoming 3,071 6.5
48 Tennessee 34,167 6.6
49 Oklahoma 21,855 6.7
50 Arkansas 17,458 7.1
51 Nevada 13,061 9.0

[deadparrot]

1. You gotta love all the blue states bunched at the top.

[JI7]

9. yup, i think liberals just learn to accept difference and get along with

people. that's why the most blue areas are the most populated areas. we learn to live with people of various backgrounds and learn about each other.

[Cobalt Violet]

2. This looks a lot like the IQ by red vs. blue order.

[sonicx]

3. that's because those libruls stay together...but sleep around on the side.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. Massachusetts also has the lowest teenage pregnancy rate

the lowest infant mortality rate
the best public schools

I think it's pretty ironic that the "values" states lead the country in divorce, while the "heathen" states are among the lowest in divorce rates.

Ahhh, the hypocrisy.

[sonicx]

6. "Massachusetts also has the lowest teenage pregnancy rate"

it's cuz the libruls are all queer man-on-dog lovers.

"the lowest infant mortality rate"

libruls don't count abortion as murder.

"the best public schools"

book reading libruls with their 60% tax rates.

/freeper mode

[Kathy in Cambridge]

12. And Mass is 40th in tax burden

our income tax is only 5.2% and sales tax is 5%. And we don't have tax on clothes.

[sonicx]

14. i'm confused...

why do you guys let idiot freepers smear your state?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

15. I don't. I wipe the floor with them.

I had a guy ask me on a plane where I was from. When I said Boston, he asked "Is that America?" and I let him have it. I said he's be speaking with a British accent and singing "God Save the Queen" instead of "God Bless America" if it weren't for a bunch of 'libruls' in Massachusetts.

[flowomo]

this is 1994 and older data..... may still be accurate.... but be careful

you don't get nailed in a debate with that fact and aren't aware of it.

[redherring]

7. Good point. Here's one from 1998

Seems to me like it hasn't changed much.

http://www.divorcemag.com/statistics/statsUS2.shtml

[flowomo]

11. yep, better, but the new data is not crunched for "rate"....

I think the numbers probably are holding over time (why would they change?), but I have seen a lot of bogus numbers posted here in the last few days (like the bogus state IQ chart) and don't want DU'ers and their friends getting into arguments/debates with Bushies and getting caught with imprecise/inaccurate data.

[George_S]

13. Excellent catch, new data:

Walking the walk on family values

By William V. D'Antonio | October 31, 2004

PRESIDENT Bush and Vice President Cheney make reference to "Massachusetts liberals" as if they were referring to people with some kind of disease. I decided it was time to do some research on these people, and here is what I found.
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The state with the lowest divorce rate in the nation is Massachusetts. At latest count it had a divorce rate of 2.4 per 1,000 population, while the rate for Texas was 4.1.

But don't take the US government's word for it. Take a look at the findings from the George Barna Research Group. George Barna, a born-again Christian whose company is in Ventura, Calif., found that Massachusetts does indeed have the lowest divorce rate among all 50 states. More disturbing was the finding that born-again Christians have among the highest divorce rates.

The Associated Press, using data supplied by the US Census Bureau, found that the highest divorce rates are to be found in the Bible Belt. The AP report stated that "the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average of 4.2 per thousand people." The 10 Southern states with some of the highest divorce rates were Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas. By comparison nine states in the Northeast were among those with the lowest divorce rates: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/10/31/walking_the_walk_on_family_values/

Bet their abortion rate is higher too. This is the kind of stuff we need to fight back with: the truth.

[flowomo]

16. Funny that it mentions the Barna study because....

just yesterday, I was on one of my regular excursions over at Freeperland and someone posted this Barna study and they were going apeshit over it.... lots of "must be bogus" and "oh, dear, this is terrible"-type stuff. Made them very nervous and unhappy.

But I think these new studies are still using that 1994 data.

[billyoc]

5. Oh, great, I got divorced

in Mass! :cry:

[pdxmike]

8. Jesus?

But they don't love Jesus!

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

10. It's all them ho-mo-sexuals

we made sure them homos can't get married, so they can't get de-vorced neither.