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February 16, 2012

The Dark Side of a Divided White America

Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

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Once, white Americans across all classes shared a common culture when it came to “the basics”– marriage, work, religion and law-abidingness, argues political scientist Charles Murray in his new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. That’s all changed in the past five decades.

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