LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY horvendile)

There is a interesting article in the New York Times today on the red/blue state divide and how religion is a big part of it. My favorite factoid was:

For example, the fraction of the population who agreed with thestatement "AIDS is God's punishment for immoral sexual behavior" washighly correlated with whether the state was red or blue, according tosurveys conducted by the Pew Research Center.