Well I totally agree that America peaked in the early 60s. If you've never read "Coming Apart" by Charles Murray, it's interesting, as are a lot of the sources he cites. The subtitle, something about White America, is misleading in the sense that it makes one think the book is about the breakdown of white America in particular. Rather, he analyzes white America independently so that he's not spending the whole time analyzing the disparity between whites and blacks. Basically the same problems -- single motherhood/lower marriage rates/more divorce, drug use, working less, and the breakdown of community -- happen to both communities.
Well I totally agree that America peaked in the early 60s. If you've never read "Coming Apart" by Charles Murray, it's interesting, as are a lot of the sources he cites. The subtitle, something about White America, is misleading in the sense that it makes one think the book is about the breakdown of white America in particular. Rather, he analyzes white America independently so that he's not spending the whole time analyzing the disparity between whites and blacks. Basically the same problems -- single motherhood/lower marriage rates/more divorce, drug use, working less, and the breakdown of community -- happen to both communities.
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