Yeah, what he said.

Dave Kopel guest-blogs for Glenn Reynolds.com, dissecting the Daily Kos "red state girls are sluts" post that I critiqued back on December 6th.



Key quotes:

"Under the Kos rankings, a birth to a married 19-year-old is counted as a contribution to social decay, whereas a birth to an unmarried 25 year-old is not. The Kos method is therefore skewed against states where young people marry early, and have children early. For example, Utah ranks 32nd in teenage birth rates (what Kos measures) but is dead last (and therefore best) in illegitimacy rates. . . .

Red states predominated in every category (both good and bad), apparently because there are more red states than blue states. If we’re being competitive, then we would have to say that blue states are the winner. The good:bad ratios for blue states were notably better than the same ratios for red states.



But it's a much more mixed picture than the one presented by Kos, in which blue states are almost the only good states, and red states are almost the only bad states."

BTW, while Kos used it to slam 'values' voters, I've also seen this type of stuff used to imply blue America could die a slow death, being outbred by the reds.

BBTW I'd love to go back to calling leftists "red" but the thing's gotten so entrenched by now that I think we've switched colors. I'd also love to know which network executive(s) knew so little about political historic symbolism as to make the decision to show the republican states red on the graphics.