Posted on 01/31/2009 9:16:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Vermont, that figures. Vermont’s specialty was exposed on O’Reily where Vermont strongly protects their pedophiles over child rights. Not a good place to raise kids.
Liberalism and Godlessness in perfect lockstep.
Where are the freepers who claim the GOP is the party of Southern hillbillies and needs to change?
The only puzzle is this -— why isn’t religiosity inversely correlated with crime rate ?
I’d like to see which states have the highest and lowest crime rates in the country.
Also, I like to know if religiosity DECREASES out of wedlock pregnancies. I hear that Mississippi has one of the highest out of wedlock birth rates in the country.
The secularist will use this statistic as an argument FOR less religion.
I think there may be a direct correlation in some instances regarding criminal and immoral heborior. Here are my theories why FWIW: Criminals tend to go where the victims are easiest to victimize. Religious people want to think the best of others and tend to trust too much, hence a lot of them get victimized compared to less trusting folks. As to birthrate, maybe but then that may not be out of whack compared to abortions in other less-religious states. Pregnancies may be the same or higher in those other states; it’s just that in those other states, the babies are disposable. Also, single mothers know they can access charitable sources in religious states, in addition to state or federal benefits. Religious states tend to divide between good people and bad people much more clearly than in other states. People either love religion or hate it, especially whatever religion is dominant in the area. There tends to be less middle ground.
Last I read, I think Utah has the lowest crime rate.
Poorest state equals most attention to God.
Argument for a depression being good for the country.
Ironically, Mississippi not only has more natural disasters (NOAA) than Vermont on average, they are also polar opposites when it comes to crime committed by both citizens and public officials, i.e. Mississippi has considerably higher crime and corruption than Vermont (Department of Justice: Census Bureau).
Just proves that just cause you say you’re “religious” doesn’t mean you practice it nor does God care what you claim to be (and maybe vice versa).
Out west
I’d also like to see statistics on the average educational levels of the most religious vs. the least religious states.
Mississippi is nearly 40% black, the highest in the nation.
The crime rate and illegitimacy stems SOLELY from that fact.
Whites in Mississippi have very low crime rate and vote extremely conservative.
Many whites attend church regularly as do a fair number of blacks...particularly rural ones.
And Mississippi is one of the largest charity givers per capita yet quite poor compared to say stingy Massachusetts.
Is that clearer?
I just googled it. Mississippi has the lowest family income, lowest quality of life. lowest quality of health care, education. But then, it is the most religious state. Go figure. Secularists are going to have a field day with this data.
On the other hand, If Vermont is such a heaven, why do only 600,000 people reside there? Is it because of the weather ? Or maybe because Vermont is too small ?
It is interesting to compare the list of the most religious states, to the list of smartest states .... particularly if you look at the top and bottom ten in each list.
The correlation isn’t 100%, but its pretty strong.
http://www.statestats.com/edrank.htm
That may also be a factor but I hesitate to link honesty and morality with levels of education. It’s a question of character, not education.
That too.
Mississippi also has way more people than Vermont. I wonder if thats been taken into account.
I think the only person having a field day with it is you.
Not sure what your real reason is.
This survey didn’t make any differentiation between various kinds of “religious” people (good or bad).
Michigan, at 64%, has a higher percentage of religious people than one would expect. Perhaps the Muslims in Dearbornistan are driving up the numbers. And when it comes to religious states with high black populations, for many “religion” is Jeremiah Wright.
New England is less religious because of the rot within the old Congregational churches, which were once the Puritans, I believe. That denomination, now the Church of Christ, is extremely left wing. The left wing politics disiplaced the preaching of the Gospel and old-time New Englanders drifted away from the church. That began long ago, probably in the 19th century. Maybe some church historian can shed some light on this.
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