>>Glass and Levchak also say that people who simply live in counties with high proportions of religious conservatives are also more likely to divorce than their counterparts elsewhere. <<
This observation may be the key to understanding what garbage this whole study is. It’s saying in effect that where divorce rates are high, they are high among religious conservatives and among the general population.
Big whoop.
Perhaps their public funding dollars ran out and they didn’t have an extra ten minutes to normalize their data before publishing.
Evangelical Christians say they absolutely don’t believe in divorce. That’s the issue, whether in a county that has non-Christians divorcing or not.