Digby: Family Value$

We have heard a great deal over the past few decades about how the elites are ruining the country with their libertine ways. In fact, the social conservative movement is based almost exclusively upon the idea that our society is going to hell in handbasket because the liberals are promoting immorality. And one of the main pieces of evidence is the decline of traditional marriage.

But what if the decline of marriage has little to do with a lack of traditional family values at all? And what if the salt of the earth regular working Americans who social conservatives claim as the backbone of their movement are the ones who are rejecting marriage in the greatest numbers?