[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.

[Morpheus2009]

There’s actually plenty of truth to that. New England has loads of single parent and cohabiting individuals, so when they say low divorce, well, take it with a pinch of salt.