Family values run stronger among folks in the Red States than in the liberal leftie leaners of those Blue States. Everyone knows that. In liberal-land one doesn't see billboards that remind us that "The family that prays together, stays together." Apparently more prayer leads to greater family values, and as we all know, liberals don't pray. Right?

Divorce rates are a measure of family values.

However, according to the Barna Group (consultants to evangelical Christian groups):

• 19 percent of Northeasterners (lefties, all) have divorced
• 27 percent of Southerners and Midwesterners (mostly family-oriented conservatives) have untied their knots at least once.
• 27 percent of self-described born-again Christians have been divorced
• 24 percent of other Christians - those less faithful than the born-agains - have renounced their vows.
  

Divorce rates, by denomination

• 34% non-denominational evangelical Christian congregations
• 29% Baptists
• 25% Mainline Protestants
• 24% Mormons
• 21% Catholics and Lutherans
  

Sanity check: 21% of atheists and agnostics have succumbed to the temptations and pleasures of divorce court.

Red State Values, Blue State Values

1. According to 2004 presidential voting election results, there are:
   
   • red states: 32
   • blue states:19 (includes District of Columbia)
   Drawing on data provided by the Centers for Disease Control, we can develop a red-state/blue-state morality chart for 2004. It reveals some interesting facts.

2. Divorce.

   The national average divorce rate(divorces per 1000 population) was 3.6.
   
   • 73.3% of blue states were below that average (26.7% were above)
     3/4 of blue states had divorce rates BELOW the national average.
     
     
   • 20.0% of red states were below that average (80.0% were above)
     4/5 of red states had divorce rates ABOVE the national average.
     
   note: 2 blue states and 3 red states did not report for that year
   http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/divorce90_04.pdf

3. Teenage (ages 15-19) pregnancies

   The states with the worst teen pregnancy rates were red states
   
   • 9 of the 10 worst states were red states
   • 20 of 32 red states had teen pregnancy rates significantly higher than US average (includes the 9 mentioned above)
   • 1 of the 19 blue states had teen pregnancy rate significantly higher than US average (actually not a state - it was the District of Columbia)
     
   
   The states with the best teen pregnancy rates were blue states
   
   • 9 of 10 best states were blue states
   • 18 of 19 blue states had teen pregnancy rates significantly lower than the US average (includes the 9 mentioned above)
   • 10 of 32 red had teen pregnancy rates significantly lower than the US average
   
   Some states had 'average' teen pregnancy rates
   
   • 0 blue states had rates not significantly different from US average
   • 2 red states had rates not significantly different from US average
   
   All of the above pregnancy statistics are clearly shown at the CDC website

4. It gets worse.

   The highest rates of divorce, murder, STD/HIV/AIDS, teen pregnancy, single parent homes, infant mortality, and obesity rates in the nation are in the Bible Belt. As a region, the Bible Belt has the poorest health care systems and the lowest rates of high school graduation. If you don't believe it, look it up for yourself.

Read an article discussing much of the above. While it has many citations and web links - the ones I checked proved to be reliable - that article was NOT my source for any of the above content.

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Juanita dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air she breathes is clean because some wacko liberal environmentalist fought for the laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

Tomorrow, she'll take her kids fishing at the river. The river's banks are clean, the water is clear, the fish are plentiful and safe to eat. A few years ago, it wasn't like that. The water was contaminated, smelly, dangerous. If there had been any fish, you wouldn't dare eat them. The pollutants floating on the river once or twice caught on fire.

Then those damned socialist democrats lied to people and made promises they couldn't keep without government intervention. The people responded, the government acted, the polluters complied (under protest), and look what happened!

This used to be such a great country - before the government meddled in everyone's affairs.

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Those G%$#&@~#@n Liberals

When we last checked in on Joe, he was traveling to see his father at the family farm. Poor Joe had to drive in a car whose safety was ensured because of government regulations on automakers. He was forced to use government-funded roads and their liberty-depriving traffic regulations. He had to endure this tyranny because those G%$#&@~#@n liberals keep sticking their noses into people's private lives.

He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.

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Liberals Are Ruining America

If Sandy is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, she'll get a regular check from her state's workers' compensation department or unemployment agency because some stupid liberal didn't think she should lose her home because of a temporary misfortune.

America is going to Hell in a handbasket with all of these tax-and-spend-liberal schemes.

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Jamal walks on the government-provided sidewalk to subway station for the government-subsidized ride to work. It saves Jamal considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation.

While he's using public transportation, he's a commie-pinko-fag-junkie because he's helping to reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil.... not to mention his contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants. Only Al-Gore-Lovers think that's important.

Jamal's actions fly in the face of prosperity. He has forgotten the words of a wise Wall Street mega-billionaire: "Pollution is a by-product of industry. Without pollution, there would be no industry, no profits. Let the tree-huggers clean it up if it's so important."

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G*d d*mn*d Liberals

Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee.

The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.

With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and that they work as advertised.

All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Joe gets it too.

Sit tight folks. In the next few days I'll give you plenty of opportunities to hate liberals and Democrats and commie pinko fag junkies.

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In spite of valiant efforts by conservatives, those damned liberals have ruined our country and our freedoms. Here our some examples of how those atheist humanist Democrats and their socialist ilk have stripped away our God-given Constitutional rights:

• Public Safety:
• water quality standards
• air quality standards
• food and drug quality standards
• food and drug labeling standards
• consumer product safety standards
• minimum standards for possession and use of dangerous materials and weapons
• safety standards for vehicles
• mandatory safety inspections for airlines


• Education:
• state-assisted education from pre-school to Doctorate
• subsidized loans to assist with education expenses
• a well-educated workforce
• schooled and skilled military personnel


• Health:
• affordable medical insurance for the poor, the elderly, and children of the working poor
• an abundance of well-trained medical generalists and specialists - all because of subsidized public education


• Workplace:
• unemployment insurance
• minimum wage laws
• child labor laws
• jobs with good pay scales, medical benefits, retirement plans, paid holidays, and paid vacation
• safe working conditions
• mandatory workers' compensation for job-related injuries
• the right to join unions


• Finance:
• insured bank accounts
• affordable mortgages because of underwriting provided by Fannie Mae, FHA, and Veterans' Administration
• social security
• social security
• an economy with regulations that minimize wide boom-and-bust swings


• Infrastrucure:
• public transportation
• public roads
• nation-wide electrification
• publicly funded and maintained parks and other recreation facilities


• Government:
• reduced numbers of non-defense federal employees
• reduced budget deficits & paid down national debt
• keep government out of our churches


• Human Rights
• equal treatment under the law
• civil rights legislation
• voting rights laws

I say we should go back to the good old days where men were men and where wimmen knew their place and where dark-skinned people went back to their own countries and left America to REAL Americans.

Next Week: How those commie-pinko-fag-junkie Democrats lose wars and encourage terrorists.

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