cough have you seen how many divorces typical conservative leaders have?
People that authentically hold conservative values work differently. I suspect that the lower divorce rate among this cohort has a lot to do with another statistic: that 65-70% of divorces are initiated by women. Conservative values would seem to inhibit a woman from initiating divorce, resulting in a lower rate.
also: this article is poorly thought out junk top to bottom, imo.
The whole ‘abortions for me, not for thee’ situation plays out a lot for instance. And the highest porn use areas have always been conservative from what I can tell.
The article is junk. But the data lines up with other sources I found.
It’s just inconvenient for the narrative.
Do any of those strike you as anything but predominantly conservative?
Arkansas 10.70% Oklahoma 10.40% Nevada 10.20% New Mexico 10.20% Kentucky 10.10% Wyoming 10% Delaware 9.40% Utah 9.40% Kansas 9.20%
I'd also like to see the marriage rate by state for comparison, too. Arkansas has more than 2x the marriages per capita of California (lowest divorce rate), for instance, but only 20% fewer divorces...
Again, this article is a bad conceptual and statistical analysis of the data.
By large margins.
Maybe folks have to move to rural areas after a divorce because they’re broke, for instance. Or older people tend to stay in conservative areas, and younger ones move to the cities, and older folks are more likely to be divorced?
And since populations are mobile, maybe they got married in the blue (or red state) then moved and got divorced.
But if someone says ‘Conservatives have fewer divorces’, that really seems implausible considering the data.