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title: "The Remarrying Kind"
description: "About one-in-ten ever-married adults in Arkansas and Oklahoma have had three or more spouses."
date: "2009-11-10"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2009/11/10/the-remarrying-kind/"
---

# The Remarrying Kind

Remember the classic country song: “All My Ex’s Live in Texas”? Well, George Strait was on to something. Looking at numbers, Texas is indeed home to more thrice-married adults than any other state, about 428,000 women and 373,000 men. But that’s partly because it’s home to so many people, period. Looking at rates, about 6% of Texans who ever have been married have wed three times or more. That is similar to the national average (5%), but well below the leaders in this category. ([](http://pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/assets/flash/marriage/)Click here for state-by-state interactive map on marriage and divorce.) In the neighboring states of Arkansas and Oklahoma about 10% of all ever-married adults have had at least three spouses. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1380/marriage-and-divorce-by-state)