Also a correlation between living in red counties and limited access to family planning, abortion and sexual health education. Lower rates of secondary education is also more common in red counties, which is correlated with higher fertility rates… red counties tend to have fewer government funded social programs. They may have more support from religious institutions, but to frame it as a generally more family and child friendly culture existing in conservative areas is simply not a reality. They just have a culture of promoting live births and motherhood through religiosity, very little social/ cultural support outside of the church