[n9]

I would like to see these stats compared to the average age of marriage by state. The top states regarding divorce are, overall, rural and relatively poorer (except for Delaware.)

I'd also like to see the marriage rate by state for comparison, too. Arkansas has more than 2x the marriages per capita of California (lowest divorce rate), for instance, but only 20% fewer divorces...

Again, this article is a bad conceptual and statistical analysis of the data.

[lazide]

Sure - but good luck untangling the various factors because urban environments are almost always Democrat (blue) and rural environments are almost always Republican (red).

By large margins.

Maybe folks have to move to rural areas after a divorce because they’re broke, for instance. Or older people tend to stay in conservative areas, and younger ones move to the cities, and older folks are more likely to be divorced?

And since populations are mobile, maybe they got married in the blue (or red state) then moved and got divorced.

But if someone says ‘Conservatives have fewer divorces’, that really seems implausible considering the data.