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Two interesting recent books address those questions:
When religious and social institutions begin break down, society as a whole and especially the lower middle class suffers in ways rarely covered by the MSM. If you're interested in this subject, I can recommended a recent book: Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray
Great points.
Apparently now it's not just blacks who are having the family destroyed...According to Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute, it's happening to white families now as well! See Coming Apart: The State of White America. This is on my reading list for the coming weeks...
> I don't think you can fairly say that poverty is unrelated.
Drawing from the statistics, I can reasonably infer this. This inference is only reasonable because infection rates still tilt heavily toward a racial demographic that is equally disadvantaged economically as its less-afflicted peers.
Perhaps if the data supplied were more granular, we could draw some truly stunning conclusions. Conclusions that are also shockingly impolitic. Until then, we have to take statistics like this in the context of other statistics concerning African-Americans like incarceration rates, academic achievement, and children born out of wedlock. Even when controlling for income, we see that there is a definite problem tilted towards African Americans.
If you would like to see a similar study on everything I mentioned, but set up to only look at diversity within whites, you'll see many of these same issues arising in lower-class whites.
> In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity.
>Drawing on five decades of statistics and research, Coming Apart demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged so far in core behaviors and values that they barely recognize their underlying American kinship—divergence that has nothing to do with income inequality and that has grown during good economic times and bad.
>The top and bottom of white America increasingly live in different cultures, Murray argues, with the powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by their own kind, ignorant about life in mainstream America, and the lower class suffering from erosions of family and community life that strike at the heart of the pursuit of happiness. That divergence puts the success of the American project at risk.
>The evidence in Coming Apart is about white America. Its message is about all of America.
Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010
Not according to Charles Murray who I'm quite sure has studied the issue more than Reich.