States Voting Based on Morals -- not so Moral

States Voting Based on Morals -- not so Moral

Again, its not what you know, but what you understand that knowledge to mean!

"Texas and Massachusetts. In some ways they were the two states competing in the last election. One is the home of Harvard, gay marriage, high taxes and social permissiveness. The other is Bush country, solidly Republican, traditional and gun-toting. Massachusetts voted for John Kerry over George W Bush 62% to 37%; Texas voted for Bush over Kerry 61% to 38%.

"Ask yourself a simple question: which state has the highest divorce rate? Marriage was a key issue in the last election, with Massachusetts' gay marriages becoming a symbol of alleged blue state decadence and moral decay. But in fact Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate in the country at 2.4 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants. Texas, which until recently made private gay sex a crime, has a divorce rate of 4.1."

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"In Texas the proportion of people unmarried is 32.4%; in Massachusetts it is 26.8%. So even with a higher marriage rate, Massachusetts has a divorce rate almost half of its “conservative” rival."

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In Texas teen births as a percentage of all births are 16.1%. In liberal, secular Massachusetts they are 7.4%, less than half.

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"America has a rate of 21 abortions per 1,000 women aged between 15 and 44. Holland has a rate of 6.8....which country is the most socially conservative?"