People in blue states don’t get married in the first place.
Posted on 01/24/2014 2:52:16 PM PST by Oliviaforever
Divorce hits red states harder than blue states, according to new research out of the University of Texas and University of Iowa.
The research, published in the American Journal of Sociology, looks at religion and divorce and found the more conservative an area, the higher the divorce rate.
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People in blue states don’t get married in the first place.
I can only speak for myself, but my conservative friends actually get married, while those I know who are DIMs don’t get married, they ‘co-habitat’. So I could understand why ‘divorce’ (ie opposite of marriage) is higher in conservative areas.
It’s easy to have low divorce rates when nobody gets married.
Credibility? I think....ZERO!
“People in blue states don’t get married in the first place.”
Bingo!
Wait 4 Gay Marriage and THEN see what happens!
It doesn't count as a divorce if there was no married to begin with. That's how liberal areas can claim, statistically, to have a lower divorce rate.
If you wait long enough it goes to zero.
No, the research is more insidious than that.
They are working with percentages and the number of marriages would not impact that.
They have either corrupted the data or are attacking efforts to protect traditional marriage.
People in blue states don’t get married in the first place.
“People in blue states don’t get married in the first place.”
Beat me to it.
Same sex marriages won't be included in the statistics.
But.........there are probably fewer marriages per capita in blue states.
That's why statistics are misleading.
And in some cases, deliberately misleading.
No info on how this “research” was done. And the reporter has no idea how to use apostrophes.
And from the editor of the Journal where it was published:
Barbara Celarent is a region of the ocean spirit. She emerges from time to time as that spirit’s interest in comprehending the phenomena of particularity and difference.”Barbara Celarent” is simply the name given to the minimal definition and constancy thereby achieved.
Since humans appear to be one of the vanguards exploring phenomena of difference, an occasional aspect of this minimal constancy is indwelling in humans. Celarent has most often taken the form of the woman shown to the left.
At present (2049) Celarent has a number of particular characteristics: she “is” a woman of 51 years with a wide variety of experiences acquired while indwelling various humans. She also “is” Neptunian Professor of the Sociology of Particularity at the University of Atlantis, with research continuing into the peculiar behavior of humans.
None of this has any enduring reality. Celarent simply emerges and disappears.
The American Journal of Sociology reviews
One of Celarent’s attempts to be particular is a series of essays about old books in social science. These began to appear in the year 2009. As an aspect of eternity, Celarent is not particularly bothered by the anachronisms involved. Her “bibliography” appears below.
Comments about Celarent’s reviews and suggestions for works she should read should be sent to Andrew Abbott at the email address noted below. Professor Abbott is occasionally visited by Celarent and passes on such material to her.
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Okay.
Thanks. That is what I was thinking.
The only divorce that matters will be the divorce of the Red states from the Blue states.
“People in blue states don’t get married in the first place.”
TTWROOMM*
(*Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth.)
In liberal areas, the woman just "takes care of the problem," and no one wants to marry such.
no marriage = no divorce.
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