Red State, Blue State

Here's an interesting statistic; the state with the fewest divorces? Massachusetts. Which is interesting when you set it against some of the claims made on behalf of the red states (many of which have divorce rates well over the national average) by pandering politicians and pundits.

Now that's some nice alliteration.

But it's not as meaningful as it looks; sure things aren't as wonderful in the red states as some would like to pretend, but that doesn't mean that the only answer is that people in Massachusetts are more moral than people in, say, Texas. There are any number of other explanations possible.