Is it true that OK and TX have the highest divorce rates in the nation??

[kentuck]

And Massachusetts has the lowest? My wife mentioned this to me this evening and she is a voracious reader. But if that is true, isn't it rather unusual that the most liberal state has the fewest divorces and could be legitimately called the "family values" state??

[JI7]

1. yes

[Vickers]

2. Yeah, but there they call it "sibling discord"

I keed, I keed!

[A Simple Game]

3. Well, if they are siblings,

they should get divorced.

[JLJ]

4. I'm From Texas...

and I think the last stat I saw on this was 56% or something like that. I don't know if that's the highest or not. From what I understand, 50% of ALL marriages end in divorce, not just the ones here in Texas. But what does the ultra conservative religous right say about this? They don't care, just as long as gays don't get married.

See, with everyone around here, it's immoral unless YOU want to do it... then it's okay. I live in a dry county. Why? Because it's "immoral" in their eyes... However, go to the next county to a restaurant and you'll see these exact same people drinking it up. Hypocrisy runs rampant in my part of the country.

[JLJ]

6. By the way...

The whole wet/dry county issue is starting to stir again in my area... I bet it gets shot down like the other billion times it's been brought to vote.

[newyawker99]

16. Hi JLJ!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[sonicx]

5. there are many stats like this that could be used to beat the pukes

but we never use em..

like abortion being up under Bush...
and job creation under Dems ALWAYS better than under pukes.

[Jane Austin]

17. We need PR work in between elections.

And I mean by PR professionals, not politicians.

[seabeyond]

7. right here in little ole amarillo more teen preg

nation wide. i also did a count a decade ago with the women that worked in accounting. adding all the womens marriages, and me never having been married, divide by # of employees, we had 2. something marriages for all of us. told em, dont miss around do you, leave you husband and have someone waiting in the wings to marry

[JLJ]

8. I'm from Plainview!

Nice to see someone else is stuck in my area!

[seabeyond]

9. lol lol hey plainview

oh lordy. my kids go to a private christian school. today was their first day back. what a world we live in. i am a california girl stuck in hte panhandle of texas. though, i do like plainview. small but i think they did a good job on the town. we have hit the park. gosh even know a molly that lives there. think a husband mark. her family is from there.

[spooky3]

10. State by state divorce rates in 1994

http://www.divorcereform.org/94staterates.html

this was the best I could find quickly; I'm sure someone else can find more recent #s.

[Jane Austin]

12. I don't think I've seen a closer correlation to the red states/blue states

What a bunch of hip-o-crits!

[JohnnyCougar]

13. Looks like the red states don't believe in the sanctity of marriage!

[Jane Austin]

11. Well, all of somebody's exes live in Texas! :)

n/t

[Jane Austin]

14. The stats in this thread prove one important thing.

We cannot afford to leave the politics up to politicians.

We need to have a PR group that frames these things for us.

It drove me crazy that Kerry wouldn't answer the Taxachusetts thing, when it would have been so easy.

Maybe that's a role that MoveOn or George Soros could take on.

Or perhaps we need a new entity to get that message out.

I'd sure back it.

I'm tired of being out-PR'ed by the jerks at Rove and Co.

[Dookus]

15. here are numbers from 1994

Texas isn't worst, but close to it.

  Rank     State      Number    Rate     
---------------------------------------

      United States 1,191,000  4.6

  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 

[annabanana]

18. Gawd that's funny!

Those red states sure do seem to have more than their fair share of hypocrites.

[Toucano]

19. Kick n/t