--- HIGH CRIME RATES AND HIGH OUT OF WEDLOCK PREGNANCY RATES IN MISSISSIPPI ARE UNCORRELATED WITH RELIGIOUS PEOPLE ( BLACK OR WHITE ). Mississippi does not have a high illegitimat5e white birth rate.
I did not say Mississiipi's black people are irreligous, I said they are less regular church goers than whites except in rural areas where they still cling to the old ways
Drive thru the ghetto on Sunday morning....see for your self. Drive by an old clapboard church in Sugar Ditch...it's likely to be crammed with bloack folks in their Sunday finest. Another note for you is that black churches are overwhlemingly female. If you went to church down here or knew anything about us outside what you've seen in Walter Hill movies you'd know this.
SeekAndFind, I don't have much to add to wardaddy's and Yudan's posts except to point out that you can google and yahoo all you want, but you won't see the real truth unless you've experienced it. Yudan, wardaddy, and I have experienced Mississippi personally for many, many years.
I do want to say that Mississippi is not one of the most generous wrt charity, it is THE most generous, despite low incomes.
Too, while there may be a high out of wedlock pregnancy rate, this is primarily because they don't compound their mistake by having an abortion. There is only one abortion clinic in Mississippi, and it's been in dire straits for years. The day that they go belly-up can't come soon enough for me.
Heck...Mississippi even has a pro-life license plate.
I suspect there are many other states with an out of wedlock pregnancy rate as high, or higher, than Mississippi, but they clean up their mistakes by killing their unborn babies.
