[heylady]

Do they have fewer divorces because fewer
actually get married in the first place?

[Trumpinator]

Do they have fewer divorces because fewer
actually get married in the first place?

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No. It could be Catholic values. Brooklyn is known as the city of churches.

[rarestia]

Do they have fewer divorces because fewer actually get married in the first place?

Boom! Exactly what I was going to say. Compare unwed child rearing in general, and I'd bet the south has the north beat in all categories for morality.

[GrootheWanderer]

According to the CDC, the marriage rates for both states is about the same: 6.7 per 1,000 people in New York in 2014 and 6.9 for Texas.

[Lockbox]

Do they have fewer divorces because fewer actually get married in the first place?

BINGO!

[x]

Do they have fewer divorces because fewer actually get married in the first place?

True. New York is at the bottom of percentage of households that are two-parent families. New Yorkers also get married later (though the differences aren't so great as one might think -- age at first marriage falls in a 24-29 range for women, 26-30 for men, if you don't count Utah). Still, people in states like New York or Pennsylvania or Massachusetts do tend to get divorced less than people in states that are supposed to be more conservative.