[p2p-research] Intelligent People Have "Unnatural" Preferences And Values That Are Novel In...

[Kevin Carson]

On 3/2/10, j.martin.pedersen <m.pedersen at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> also, for what it is worth - monogamy, in Euro-American culture, is in
> great part an aspect of an authoritarian institution called the
> christian church...

The general value may be associated with Christianity, but at least in
the U.S.  divorce rates tend to be much higher in stereotypical "Red
States" where authoritarian strains of fundamentalist Christianity are
more common, whereas marriages on average are more stable in parts of
the country where liberal protestantism predominates.

That's one of those paradoxes of American politics that drive the Tea
Party folks crazy.  Another is that Red States, whose populations are
much more likely to look down on "welfare queens" and sing the praises
of "rugged individualism" and "free enterprise," tend to be net tax
consumers with more working poor on welfare, and to have economies
heavily reliant on federal military bases or extractive industries
with privileged access to federal land.

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