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In the 50’s – when religion was still largely a part of the American family and before the libs took over – the problems we have today weren’t even on the radar screen.[/quote]
I’m not sure what problems you’re referring to. Maybe you can identify the “problems” caused or brought about by liberals. But if religious participation leads to better living conditions, you’d think things would be better in regions of the country where religious participation is the highest. I don’t think that’s true.
The 10 most religious states are, in order: Mississippi, Utah, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia and Oklahoma
How are conditions in these states?
Nine of these ten states still had racially segregated schools at the time of the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
Five of these ten states are still among the worst states in the nation in terms of the continuing racial segregation of their public schools.
Eight of these ten states are among the eleven states in the nation with the highest rates of incarceration.
All of these ten states still have the death penalty.
Seven of these ten states are among the ten states in the nation with the highest percentage of their citizens living under the poverty level.
Six of these ten states are among the nine worst states in the nation in rates of obesity.
Nine of these ten states are among the twenty states in the nation with the highest rates of smoking.
Seven of these ten states rank in the bottom ten states in the nation in the overall health of citizens.
Nine of these ten states rank in the bottom thirteen states in the nation in life expectancy.
Seven of these ten states rank in the bottom ten states in the nation in the quality of healthcare.
Five of these ten states are the only states in the nation without a minimum wage law.
All ten of these ten states rank in the bottom sixteen states in the nation in minimum wage.
Nine of these ten states ranks in the bottom eighteen states in the nation in per pupil expenditures for public education.
Nine of these ten states rank in the bottom twenty states in the nation in the quality of high school education.
Nine of these ten states are among the twenty worst states in the nation in terms of gun deaths per capita.
Five of these ten states are among the ten states in the nation whose citizens watch the most online pornography.
