Does location lead to divorce?

The poll question is above... here is where it came from.

Looking at divorce rates statistically by country and state led me into a question: does location influence this. Not really geographically nut are the morals in specific areas more likely to produce divorce?

Who gets divorced more frequently and does state matter?

According to the Center for Disease Control, National Survey of Family Growth, the states with the highest divorce rates in 2016 are the following:

1 Nevada 14.2 %

2 Maine 13.6 %

3 Oklahoma 12.9 %

4 Oregon 12.8 %

5 Vermont 12.6 %

5 Wyoming 12.6 %

6 Arkansas 12.5 %

6 Kentucky 12.5 %

6 Tennessee 12.5 %

6 Washington 12.5 %

States with the lowest divorce rates:

1 North Dakota 8.1 %

2 New Jersey 8.2 %

3 New York 8.4 %

4 Massachusetts 9.1 %

5 Hawaii 9.4 %

6 Pennsylvania 9.2 %

7 Utah 9.4 %

8 Illinois 9.5 %

9 Virginia 9.6 %

10 Minnesota 9.7 %

So obviously culture and law plays into this, but some of the states were surprising, especially when some of those states (with high divorce rates) are red states. It was also surprising to see so many states with the larger urban areas as low on the divorce rate list by state.

******What are your thoughts?

I was going to look at rural/suburb/urban next. But then was interested in country too.

According to the UN, the country with the highest divorce rate in the world is the Maldives with 10.97 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants per year. The 20 places where divorce is most common:

Maldives - 10.97 per year per 1,000 inhabitants

Russia - 4.5

Aruba - 4.4

Belarus - 4.1

Latvia - 3.6

United States - 3.6

Lithuania - 3.5

Gibraltar - 3

Moldova - 3

Belgium - 3

Cuba - 2.9

Switzerland - 2.8

Ukraine - 2.8

Denmark - 2.8

Hong Kong - 2.76

Jordan - 2.6

Czech Republic - 2.5

Portugal - 2.5

Costa Rica - 2.5

Sweden - 2.5