The paradox is this: Cultural conservatives revel in condemning the loose moral values and louche lifestyles of "San Francisco liberals." But if you want to find two-parent families with stable marriages and coddled kids, your best bet is to bypass Sarah Palin country and go to Nancy Pelosi territory: the liberal, bicoastal, predominantly Democratic places that cultural conservatives love to hate.More detail.
The country's lowest divorce rate belongs to none other than Massachusetts, the original home of same-sex marriage. Palinites might wish that Massachusetts's enviable marital stability were an anomaly, but it is not. The pattern is robust. States that voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in both 2004 and 2008 boast lower average rates of divorce and teenage childbirth than do states that voted for the Republican in both elections. (That is using family data for 2006 and 2007, the latest available.)
And yes, it's another aspect of the age-old conflict between hicks & sophisticated urbanites.
Don't hold back, it'll raise yer blood pressure!
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You can't coddle them; you have to beat the shit out of them for true family values.
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ReplyDeleteBoy Howdy, if we didn't have some kind of release like hating all day & all night on the innernet we don't know where our BP would be.
Tough love: Spare the rod & a cliché follows.