Posted on 01/15/2016 6:18:18 AM PST by Trumpinator
Just having a little fun at Cruz's expense but his talk about New York values is a little stupid.
New York - be it the city or the state or the tri-state area (NJ, CT and sometimes PA) is pretty conservative in a lot of things. For example, there is less out of wedlock births and less crime than many cities in the so called south these days and if you want to judge by divorce rates, NY and NJ rank at last while 'traditional values' states rank the highest.
Texas is one of the leading divorce rates states.
Click link to see chart. Trump 2016
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You are doing the exact same thing to people from Southern states that Trump and the media falsely accused Cruz of doing to people from New York.
Everyone with a brain knows Cruz wasn’t referring to first responders or 9/11 with his comments. Donald Trump is guilty of politicizing 9/11 to score political points.
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Why? They don't count as New Yorkers?
True. New York is at the bottom of percentage of households that are two-parent families. New Yorkers also get married later (though the differences aren't so great as one might think -- age at first marriage falls in a 24-29 range for women, 26-30 for men, if you don't count Utah). Still, people in states like New York or Pennsylvania or Massachusetts do tend to get divorced less than people in states that are supposed to be more conservative.
Concurred by another freeper — see post 163.
“I wonder if the reason for New York ranking very low in number of divorces could be because people choose not to get married in the first place and just live together, instead?”
Actually it’s because 80% of the people in New York now are immigrants, and immigrants (from just about anywhere) do much better than Americans at staying married.
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