[Oliviaforever]

At it's very best, this is junk science at worst an attack on traditional marriage.

[CMailBag]

People in blue states don’t get married in the first place.

[LoneStarGI]

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.

[Hugin]

It’s easy to have low divorce rates when nobody gets married.

[Gay State Conservative]

Credibility? I think....ZERO!

[Alex Murphy]

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.

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.

[Hugin]

"The longer an individual waits to get married and have children, the less likely they are to divorce," said researcher Dr. Jennifer Glass.

If you wait long enough it goes to zero.

[umgud]

But.........there are probably fewer marriages per capita in blue states.

[ilovesarah2012]

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.

http://home.uchicago.edu/~aabbott/barbara.html

Okay.

[central_va]

The only divorce that matters will be the divorce of the Red states from the Blue states.

[Repeat Offender]

I wonder how many conservatives got married because "it was the right thing to do," when the bride got pregnant early?

In liberal areas, the woman just "takes care of the problem," and no one wants to marry such.

no marriage = no divorce.

[wac3rd]

How many single moms on welfare in blue states?

Huh?

Huh?

Didn’t think you wanted facts.

[zencycler]

Now read this very carefully to see if YOU can recognize the misleading methodology (not surprising) employed by this survey, in order to get the result that they wanted:

"...Alabama and Arkansas have the second and third highest divorce rates in the U.S., at 13 per 1000 people per year while New Jersey and Massachusetts, more liberal states, are two of the lowest at 6 and 7 per 1000 people per year."

Okay, did you spot it? If not, here is a hint:

at 13 per 1000 people
at 6 and 7 per 1000 people

That's right, they are measuring the divorce rate by taking the number of divorces per the number of PEOPLE in the population. Any good scientist knows that to reach conclusions from from a data set like this, you need to remove all the "variables". Clearly, in reaching the conclusion (that they wanted to reach) about conservatives they did not take into account that people in conservative states are far more likely go get married. More marriages, mean more divorces!

In other words, in these fractions 13/1000 vs. 6/1000 or 7/1000, the denominator should not be PEOPLE (1000) they should be MARRIAGES!

I am almost willing to bet that if this survey was done correctly, than the result would be something like 13/300 in the red state vs. 6/100 in the blue state, (or something like that). But of course, since that would shoe (correctly) the higher actual divorce rate in the blue states, they opted to use the flawed method to get the result that they wanted.

[docbnj]

This is also working with lumped data: by states.

Actually, there are many states designated red or blue which have large minorities of the “wrong” political color. There are actually a fair number of conservative people in New Jersey, and they tend to stay married. The others get married at a low rate, and when they finally do, they don’t have very many years left in which to get divorced. There are many variables here, which is why working my whole states is not very useful.

One also must consider the population structure of each state.

It is also the case that people who marry more than once are often great believers in marriage: they will keep trying. People who don’t believe in marriage will simply cohabit, move on, and forget about it.

I have always wondered: if marriage is such a nuisance, why are gays so eager to have it? Do they see it as such a great success among normal people?

They claim that there are benefits. I think that really the motive is that they want social approval.

Well, not all normal (heterosexual) marriages are good. Sometimes the couple is mismatched, or too young, or two immature, or one or both are just not equipped for what marriage requires. I know many marriages which were disasters, mainly because one of the pair was dishonest, or somewhat unstable mentally.

One of my friends who suffered a bad marriage summed it up by asking, why can’t the good people marry each other, and the bad people stick together and mess up each other’s lives? Why do they have to marry good people and bring them grief? It’s a good point.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Ha! Ha! So desparate.

[elpadre]

I seriously doubt their research.

You don’t have to worry about the divorce rate in the blue states since they probably have large numbers who live together with out marriage. Only homosexuals want to get married in those places.

[Charles Henrickson]

As many have already said, the libs are so far gone, they don’t even bother to get married anymore, so of course their divorce rate is going to be lower.

[MrB]

It’s an attempt to devalue the beliefs of traditional Christians and Americans.