Dossier: red-state values.(Devil in the Details)

In red states in 2001, there were 572,000 divorces ... Blue states recorded 340,000 ... In the same year, 11 red states had higher rates of divorce than any blue state ... In each of the red states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico, 46.3 percent of all births were to unwed mothers ...

In blue states, on average, that percentage was 31.7 ... Delaware has the highest rate of births to teenage mothers among all blue states, yet 17 red states have a higher rate ... Of those red states, 15 have at least twice the rate as that of Massachusetts ... There were more than 100 teen ...

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