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Morality and the Red States


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2011 Apr 30, 2:27pm   1,115 views  6 comments

by American in Japan   ➕follow (1)   💰tip   ignore  

I have no problem with people trying to live a moral life (by the Ten Commandments or Golden Rule) but I find the hypocrisy of Red States to be irritating at best. Perhaps some of you have different experiences, but time and again, I am hearing how much more "moral" Red States are than Blue States. Taking some of their own criteria, I find that most of the top ten divorce rate states are Red States...wow what a surprise...

# 1 Nevada: 7.1 (R)
# 2 Arkansas: 6.2 (R)
= 3 Alabama: 5.4 (R)
= 3 Wyoming: 5.4 (R)
# 5 Idaho: 5.3 (R)
= 6 West Virginia: 5.2 (R)
= 6 Kentucky: 5.2 (R)
= 8 Tennessee: 5.1 (R)
= 8 Florida: 5.1
# 10 Mississippi: 4.9 (R)

*Source: Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC
via http://www.statemaster.com/graph/lif_div_rat-lifestyle-divorce-rate

"Immoral" Massachusetts incidentally, which is consdered by these people to be so "liberal" and immoral has one of the lowest divorce rates in the US (46th).

Murder (which most consider to be immoral) appears to have a higher rate in many Red States:

1) Louisiana (R)
2) New Mexico
3) Maryland (B)
4) Alabama (R)
5) Mississippi (R)
6) Missouri (R)
7) South Carolina (R)
8 Michigan (B)
9) Oklahoma (R)
10) Arkansas (R)

*2009 ranking

Massachusetts is ranked much lower than most Red States here too (aorund 35th)

More to come...

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1   MarkInSF   2011 Apr 30, 2:58pm  

Didn't you know know? It's all the fault of the niggers and spics and the radial Islamics that Obama has allowed to fester. Take them out of the red states and just leave the white protestants, who are all god-fearing examples of moral rectitude, and you'd see what hellholes of moral depravity the blue states actually are.

2   American in Japan   2011 Apr 30, 3:19pm  

Red State, Alaska has the highest rate of forceable rape:
http://www.walletpop.com/2010/04/05/most-dangerous-states-crime-rankings-for-2010/

I give credit to two Red States at least aren't part of the hypocrisy...Utah and Idaho.

3   elliemae   2011 May 1, 5:01am  

Utah has some stuff to be proud of:
http://www.adherents.com/largecom/lds_dem.html

Highest Antidepressant use
Multilevel Marketing Captial of the Universe
Affinity Fraud
Largest Family Size
High Number of Bankruptcy Filings
Fighting with Iowa for highest Jell-o consumption

These are 2005 numbers, tho...

We were fifth in the nation for foreclosures 2010
...and we've got a shitload of polygamists.

4   bob2356   2011 May 1, 5:24am  

elliemae says

and we’ve got a shitload of polygamists.

As well as a lot of family trees that lack branches. Vice is nice but incest is best.

5   Vicente   2011 May 1, 12:18pm  

MarkInSF says

spics and the radial Islamics

Radial Islamists? Now I've found a whole new kind to be afeared of.

6   mikey   2011 May 1, 2:53pm  

"Radial Islamist."
Radial?
With bin Laden dead, it appears that this is not going to be a Goodyear for terrorists. They're going to hit the skids since they just lost their lug nuts. They'll be unbalanced and treading water, assuming this story has not been inflated. Hopefully this will spare us more drama since I was starting to tire of his bald faced shenanigans.
Now that he's been plugged, maybe now we can patch things up.

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