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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Why Are Red State Marriages Weak?

Jonathan Rauch, reviewing Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture, by law professors Naomi Cahn and June Carbone, in the National Journal, recaps a well known fact: repugican leaning states have weak families by a variety of objective measures, while Democratic leaning states have strong ones.

Although wingnuts "revel in condemning the loose moral values and louche lifestyles of 'San Francisco liberals,'" the "liberal, bicoastal, predominantly Democratic places that wingnuts love to hate" are the areas of the U.S. with the most stable marriages and lowest teen birth rates

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