Love and ...

Facing South, a product of the Institute for Southern Studies, compiles an interesting set of stats on the heels of Valentine's Day.

Here's what its writers found:
 Bible Belt's rank among U.S. regions for the highest divorce rate: 1
 Number of Southern states among the 10 with the highest divorce rates: 6
 Number of Southern states among the 10 with the highest teen birth rates: 6
 Rank of the South among U.S. regions for rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis: 1
 Number of Southern states among the 10 with the highest concentration of couples as a percent of total households: 0
 Number of Southern states among those that allow same-sex marriage or civil unions: 0
 Of the 13 Southern states, number with constitutional bans on same-sex marriage or civil unions: 10
 Percent of Southern states that still banned interracial marriage in 1966, the year before the U.S. Supreme Court's Loving v. Virginia decision struck down such laws: 100
 Estimated average African-American possession of European DNA for the U.S. overall: 25 percent
 For the Northeast: 50 percent
 For the South: 10 percent
 Estimated average European-American possession of African DNA for the U.S. overall: 2 to 20 percent
 Year in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared illegal the interracial dating ban at Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C.: 1983
 Amount the school paid in back taxes rather than lift the ban: $1 million
 Year the school finally dropped the policy: 2000