And no, it's not because your next date might be your cousin, it's becuase s/he's more likely to have HIV.  According to a new study, Southerners have a higher percentage of HIV and AIDS infected individuals than other states.  I'm really not surprised.  After just moving from Florida, I can say that there is a huge difference in the percentage of immigrants in my community than there was as a Floridian.

And no, I don't hate immigrants and I don't think that immigrants carry HIV/AIDS because they're immigrants.  But I DO know that plenty of other countries, especially the ones around Florida that people can't stand so much that they risk their lives in the open ocean to come to Florida, don't spend a lot of money on STD awareness or safe sex education.  Hell, sometimes they just get it plain wrong.

I also think that lots of countries around the world view sex in general very differently than we, descended from puritans, and still 80 percent of us believing the creation myth from the bible word for word, Americans.

We can't fix how other countries educate their citizenry, but maybe we could do more in our multicural towns.  Oh wait, that would take money, and we don't seem to have much any more.