{ Wednesday, November 10, 2004 }
Walking the walk on family values
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. (More...)
You can also look at the relationship between IQ and voting for Bush vs. Kerry. My mother, who is a Republican, often rails against those dreadful "Liberal Ivy League Schools" she sent us to, thinking we'd be getting a good education, which instead cultivated a bunch of bleeding heart pinkos. My reply is that, gee, if you take smart people from competitive universities, who then sit down, study the issues, and come out liberal, it makes you think that the more you learn the more likely you are to sway left. And I say the same thing when she goes on about the liberal media. Here are a bunch of intelligent, literate, well read people who have done their homework and concluded Liberal was the way to go? Where's the problem here?
Then we dig ferociously into our mashed potatoes and glare and wonder what happened to the "agree to disagree" covenant of 1994...
LINK | 4:47 PM | TB