Roadrunner
Roadrunner
Orleans parish votes left and liberal and Democrat, as those terms are used today by the MSM."Of all births in the region to teens between the age’s 15-19 years, 19.7% are by
Hispanics, 28.8% by Blacks and 10.9% Whites. (Texas Department of Health, 1998)"
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3056/m2/1/high_res_d/thesis.pdf
And that is true across the board. It's a racial thing, and the minorities are targeted by progressives.
Also you are probably too stupid to know this, but "teen pregnancy" is not he same thing, necessarily, as "out of wedlock birth" rates. Many of the teen pregnancies being counted in the *red* and *religious* states by the biased poll takers are young married women. Yes Virginia, sometimes people who get knocked up do get married. And when they do, they GREATLY reduce the chance that their children will be molested, abused, and criminal themselves.
It's not a liberal thing. It's a religious thing. A part of the problem, for years, was the education system health classes that insisted on teaching abstinence only courses. Lots of money and zero success.
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/louisiana-teen-pregnancy-rates-at-national-average-may-be-lowering/
"Though the factors that lead to teen pregnancy are numerous, the African-American community experiences the highest rate of early pregnancies in Orleans Parish. In 2008, according to the last year of released statistics currently with available data from the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, 15- to 17-year-old African-Americans saw a teen birth rate of 45.2 to 17.8 in the white community. And for 18 to 19-year-olds, the number raised to 117.6 to 71.5 (in 15 to 19 year-olds, the rate for African-Americans was 76 while the rate for whites was 40.4)."
Note that the statistics provided are for Orleans Parish and not mentioned to associate directly with race. Compare the white teen pregnacy rates in that unarguably blue Parish ... And it is still higher than more Conservative Parishes.
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Continue to focus on the state and continue to never address the problem.
States don't screw around ... People do ... And it obvious who the people screwing around are.
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You talk a lot about responsibility but you run like hell when having to actually accept it.
Very hard to argue that Orleans Parish is a "religious place".
Are you kidding me? Have you seen what it took to remove creationism from science classes in Orleans Parish?
Have you seen the voter turnout rates in local elections in Orleans Parish?
Could that have something to do with fanatics running the schools?
Certainly you are not blaming the school board for nearly 50% of 15 to 17 years old girls having babies?
The blame should be, and it is not, and nothing would be done if it were, on the serial sexual predators that call statutory rape "breakin' a bitch in", and the sub-culture that is cool with that attitude.
The point is that it is not some liberal strong hold. It's a constant battle for separation of church and state and that includes Orleans Parish.
Certain religions advocate against birth control. Further, they create and reinforce fatalism.
The problems have nothing, zip, nada to do with liberalism.