I'm Shocked II

[Charlie P]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28538524/?GT1=43001

Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen pregnancy rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, according to a new federal report released Wednesday.
Mississippi's rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national average in 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The teen pregnancy rate in Texas and New Mexico was more than 50 percent higher.
The three states have large proportions of black and Hispanic teenagers "” groups that traditionally have higher birth rates, experts noted.

If you go to the aricle, there is a map that you can click on each state to see how many teens per 1,000 are getting knocked up.

NY and the North East is relatively low,(25.7 for NY)compared to you folks down South.

[bawanajim]

I think they're shooting for quantity over quality.

[stealthycat II]

Good business for abortion clinics I guess ....

[Charlie P]

Kinda funny those are states that also have the worst public educations in the nation.

[bawanajim]

You have to remember that Texas got some new breeding stock from New Orleans a few years back.

ORIGINAL: Charlie P

Kinda funny those are states that also have the worst public educations in the nation.

I don't think it has much to do with that but these states have the highest migrant worker population in the country.

[stealthycat II]

Kinda funny those are states that also have the worst public educations in the nation.

opinion or fact ?

[Charlie P]

Bottom Five in Education.

46. California
47. Nevada
48. New Mexico
49. Mississippi
50. Arizona

[ipscshooter]

ORIGINAL: Charlie P

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28538524/?GT1=43001

NY and the North East is relatively low,(25.7 for NY)compared to you folks down South.

"you folks down South"? Be fair, we're not ALL breeding like rats...

[Charlie P]

Thay are in Texas.