Mass. has lowest divorce rate

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Daily Kos Staff

Monday November 01, 2004 · 9:01 PM PST

2004/11/01 · 21:01

Those "family values" assholes that like to pick on "liberal" Massachusetts (like, um, President Bush) are in for a surprise.

PRESIDENT Bush and Vice President Cheney make reference to "Massachusetts liberals" as if they were referring to people with some kind of disease. I decided it was time to do some research on these people, and here is what I found.

The state with the lowest divorce rate in the nation is Massachusetts. At latest count it had a divorce rate of 2.4 per 1,000 population, while the rate for Texas was 4.1.

But don't take the US government's word for it. Take a look at the findings from the George Barna Research Group. George Barna, a born-again Christian whose company is in Ventura, Calif., found that Massachusetts does indeed have the lowest divorce rate among all 50 states. More disturbing was the finding that born-again Christians have among the highest divorce rates.

The Associated Press, using data supplied by the US Census Bureau, found that the highest divorce rates are to be found in the Bible Belt. The AP report stated that "the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average of 4.2 per thousand people."

All that talk about "family values" is just that -- talk. It is states like the oft demonized Massachusetts that lead the way in true family values.

Mass. has lowest divorce rate

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