In 1924, the sociologist couple Robert and Helen Lynd arrived in a small Midwestern city they called Middletown (it was Muncie, Ind.) to study and survey the place. Their classic 550-page “Middletown” described a community starkly split between a “working class” (factory workers and laborers totaling 71 percent of the population) and a “business class” (owners, managers and professionals comprising 29 percent). This division, the Lynds wrote, was Middletown’s “outstanding cleavage” and influenced work, marriage, religion, leisure — almost everything.
The Lynds now have a provocative successor: Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute, whose new book — “Coming Apart: the State of White America, 1960-2010″ — argues that today’s class separations threaten America’s very nature. On the one hand is a growing lower class characterized by insecure work, unstable families and more crime. On the other is a highly educated elite that dominates our commercial, political and nonprofit institutions but is increasingly isolated from the rest of America, particularly the lower class.
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My first day of school, there were an even mix of black, white, "latino"(mexican really) and asian. I was the only native american. (I say that to differ from Indian from India)
When I graduated from Jr. High, we had an even mix of black, white, "latino" and asian. I was now the second native.
When I graduated High School, it was equally white and "latino" with 10% black and we two natives. This would carry on till college.
What happened? Why did the blacks drop out? They had the same education and opportunities. By my OWN observation, blacks found selling drugs much more lucrative than getting an education and job. To make a blanket argument, like this book “Coming Apart: the State of White America, 1960-2010″ is attempting to, you must take everything into account. Not just what "color" lives where and how they live.
IF any race is being held back, it's their own fault.