States With Highest Divorce Rates

Marriage is still a very popular institution in the United States, although recent statistics show that it is declining. The sad part is that divorce is also popular. Statistics from 2008 showed that 40% of marriages ended in divorce (and 46% of new marriages involved at least one person who had been previously married). CBS News recently posted the states with the highest rate of divorced people. I thought it was interesting so I am re-posting their list here. An interesting side-note here is that most of these states are red states -- states that oppose gay marriage because it would "harm" the holy sacrament of marriage. Make of that what you will. Here they are by gender (and the number is the number of divorced people per 1,000):

MEN
1. Arkansas.....13.5
2. Maine.....13.0
3. Oklahoma.....12.8
4. Alabama.....12.7
5. Kentucky.....12.6
6. Alaska.....12.5
7. Nevada.....12.3
8. Colorado.....11.6
9. Georgia.....11.5
10. Tennessee.....11.4
11. Mississippi.....11.1
12. Louisiana.....11.0
12. Indiana.....11.0
14. W. Virginia.....10.9
14. S. Dakota.....10.9

WOMEN
1. Alaska.....16.2
2. Oklahoma.....14.1
3. Alabama.....13.9
4. Kentucky.....13.5
5. Arkansas.....12.8
6. Mississippi.....12.5
7. Nevada.....12.3
8. Texas.....11.9
8. Arizona.....11.9
10. W. Virginia.....11.8
11. Georgia.....11.7
12. Tennessee.....11.6
13. Vermont.....11.5
14. Oregon.....11.4