Town won't let unmarried parents live together

I have this theory that there is one particular war in our country's history that we might be better off had we lost it: the civil war. I keep telling myself that we aren't actually living in a country of "red states" and "blue states" as the media would like to simplify it, but that it's more of a "shades of purple" political climate. But the fact that these outragious injustices always come out of the south or the bible belt makes it difficult to temper my prejudice.