BEAMS, PLANKS, AND MARRIAGE DEMOGRAPHICS: Michael Triplett

Tom Sylvester over at Family Scholars Blog takes a swipe at a Boston Globe column point out that Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate in the nation, but also is the first state to have gay marriage and is easily one of the most liberal states in the union. This, in contrast to the South and Southwest which has the highest divorce rates in the nation while touting family values and shunning "liberal" for their immorality.

While the column in defensive, it does raise the peculiar question of why tolerant and permissive New England has low divorce rates (and more intact families) while more conservative and rigid Southerners and Southwesterners have much higher divorce rates and fractured families.

To borrow a "Southernism," it does beg one to ask whether those states and voters shouldn't clean up their own front porch before criticizing their neighborhoods. Since liberalism, tolerance, and permissiveness doesn't appear to lead to high divorce rates (at least using this crude approach), then maybe they are missing the boat.

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