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Dead Deplorables & Class Warfare
American Conservative ^ | September 20, 2017 | Rod Dreher

Posted on 09/20/2017 1:27:43 PM PDT by C19fan

The graph on the left is white people without college degrees. The other one is white people with college degrees. The source is this paper from Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton. The numbers for black and Hispanic working-class people don’t track these stats for working-class whites. The economists can’t figure out what’s going on:

Taking all of the evidence together, we find it hard to sustain the income-based explanation.For white non-Hispanics, the story can be told, especially for those aged 50–54, and for the difference between them and the elderly, but we are left with no explanation for why Blacks and Hispanics are doing so well, nor for the divergence in mortality between college and high-school graduates, whose mortality rates are not just diverging, but going in opposite directions.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: class; revolution
The next decade might be comparable to the Hungry 40's in Europe during the 19th century where the social changes unleashed by the Industrial Revolution exploded into continent wide revolutions. As with that era where what was once skilled trades being impoverished by mechanization, whole classes of people are seeing their socioeconomic greatly diminish due to technological change and globalization. Although unlike 1848 gov't today do have the resources to basically buy off the discontented.
1 posted on 09/20/2017 1:27:44 PM PDT by C19fan
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A 20% tariff will stop that gloBULList sh!t dead in its tracks.


2 posted on 09/20/2017 1:30:15 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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3 posted on 09/20/2017 1:31:49 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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So. Better educated people fare better in this life.

Is that what they’re trying to say here?

Duh!


4 posted on 09/20/2017 1:37:24 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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The left picture tells me Winky Dink
has got into mom's diet pills, again.



5 posted on 09/20/2017 1:59:33 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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[So. Better educated people fare better in this life.]

I certainly did. Up until the end of W and the advent of the Kenyan Usurper.


6 posted on 09/20/2017 2:50:52 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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I’d prefer it only be 5 percent, but seriously, if poor people want the federal government to provide their health insurance, let them pay more for it through their shoes from Dumbblondeistan or wherever.


7 posted on 09/20/2017 2:54:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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It was really odd when talking heads mentioned college degrees and the 2016 election; Hillary’s minority support came from many barely literate people, and if those same minorities hold college degrees they are usually the equivalent of the 8th grade education of a white or Asian. Hillary definitely attracted the least educated voters this time around - as the Dems always do.


8 posted on 09/22/2017 3:43:48 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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