"Why are divorce rates higher in religiously conservative “red” states and lower in less religiously conservative “blue” states?
After all, most conservatives frown upon divorce, and religious
commitment is believed to strengthen marriage, not erode it. Even so,
religiously conservative states Alabama and Arkansas have the second and
third highest divorce rates in the U.S., at 13 per 1000 people per year
while New Jersey and Massachusetts, more liberal states, are two of the
lowest at 6 and 7 per 1000 people per year.
Evangelicals and divorce. For a new study appearing later this month in the American Journal of Sociology, Demographers Jennifer Glass at the University of Texas and Philip Levchak
at the University of Iowa looked at the entire map of the United
States, going county by county, to examine where divorces occurred in
2000 and what the characteristics of those counties were. Their work
confirms that one of the strongest factors predicting divorce rates (per
1000 married couples) is the concentration of conservative or
evangelical Protestants in that county."
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