Who Is Happier? Red Couples Or Blue Couples?

Think about your friends and the married couples you know and ask yourself – Who is happier, the Republicans or the Democrats?  A new study reported on by the Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal has the answer.According to the Daily Signal, a prominent sociologist at the University of Virginia concluded that Republicans are more often married, less likely to be divorced, and happier in their marriages than Democrats.

The numerical difference aren’t great, a few percentage points here or there, drawn from an evaluation of the national General Social Survey.

One reason given for the underlying cause may be because Republicans are more likely to embrace a “marriage-mindset,” which views marriage as the best way to “anchor” a relationship and a family - a binding commitment which makes people more likely to invest themselves into the institution.

Among those who are married, 67 percent of Republicans said they are “very happy” in their marriages while sixty percent of Democrats say the same.

Investigators said they began investigating the link between partisanship and marriage following the rise of the 2010 book “Red Families v. Blue Families,” which argued that blue regions cultivate stronger and more stable families because of liberal emphasis on education and the tendency to delay marriage and parenthood, all of which are linked to lower divorce rates.

Study authors say that the “presumption” that blue families are stronger and more stable doesn’t hold up in many important respects and, in fact, suggests the contrary. (Daily Signal)