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2017-01-03 Home Front: Culture Wars
Study Reveals Social Isolation of America's Urban Elites.
h/t Instapundit
The anger against the ruling elites that fueled the election of Donald Trump was not understood by them for good reason: they genuinely are isolated from the realities of life as experienced by most Americans.

A fascinating survey has created a data-based measure of the social isolation of the urban elites, the people who run the country who have no contact at all with the lives of most people. Charles Murray, co-author of the groundbreaking study The Bell Curve, and author of Coming Apart: The State of White America, devised a clever survey to identify the social isolation from the rest of America that characterizes highly educated, affluent elites. He explains for the American Enterprise Institute, where he is a scholar:
In Coming Apart, a book I published in 2012, I asked my readers to score themselves on a 25-item test titled "How Thick is Your Bubble?" Scores could range from 0 to 100. The lower the score, the thicker one’s elite cultural bubble.

For PBS, he created a similar version of the quiz, taken by over 130,000 people who watch PBS.

...The data yield some remarkable conclusions about the way elites cluster together and cut themselves off (snip)

When I controlled for the age of the respondent and the urbanization of the zip code, it turned out that virtually all the effect on the bubble score is driven by the percentage of adults with a college degree in the zip code where the respondent lived. The zip code’s median family income had almost no independent effect. Another interesting finding: the zip code where people lived at age 10 had a modestly larger effect on their bubble scores than their current zip code.

In other words, there really is an elite at the very top of our income, education, and status hierarchy, and they cluster in just a few areas and cut themselves off from different people. Moreover, they tend to be children of people of higher status and education.

A hereditary class cut off from the society they rule ‐ not exactly the Jeffersonian ideal of America. More like the European, Latin, and Asian nations from which many Americans fled. And they live exactly where you would expect (list below).
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-03 05:05|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 And this is surprising how?
Posted by Cheaderhead 2017-01-03 06:03||   2017-01-03 06:03|| Front Page Top

#2 In other words, there really is an elite at the very top of our income, education, and status hierarchy, and they cluster in just a few areas and cut themselves off from different people.

Hence the terms 'bible thumping, gun toting, irredeemable deplorables.' Tell me, are 'ground breaking studies,' clever surveys, and scholarly examinations all that necessary ?
Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-03 07:19||   2017-01-03 07:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Lots of words to say "I got mine, suckers, and I'll squash you like a bug to keep it."
Posted by M. Murcek 2017-01-03 07:54||   2017-01-03 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 What's mine is mine and what yours is mine 'cause I'm special.
Posted by AlanC 2017-01-03 08:00||   2017-01-03 08:00|| Front Page Top

#5 PBS was a Great Society child which was to help the lower caste. Today its just a subsidized channel for the well to do. Using other peoples money to entertain themselves.
Posted by P2Kontheroad 2017-01-03 08:10||   2017-01-03 08:10|| Front Page Top

#6 A retired Marine SSgt. at a local bar here in North Georgia held up a T-shirt one night of Hillary's face crossed behind Bars and everybody in the Bar cheered. Went in a day or two later and the T-shirt is now in a see through glass frame hung above the cash register at the bar.

Message to the Donks and the Libtards, "We don't like you either." Won't fight the Civil War again, but something tells me that these same people had great grandfathers who DID.

We are, by and large. exactly what you think we are. We have been married to our wives for years. We own pickups and we do have guns. We go to Church on Sunday and we fly the American Flag off our porches and we like homemade Cornbread and Pork BBQ. We are almost all Vets and our sons are a lot like their dads.
Some of us have been to college, but we all also own our own businesses and homes. We work hard and drink Beer mostly, and enjoy basically happy and fulfilling Lives.

We UNDERSTAND liberals and "progressives", and we don't like them. God Bless you.
Posted by Chesney Hatfield1534 2017-01-03 08:20||   2017-01-03 08:20|| Front Page Top

#7 What I'd really would like to see is a statistical study on sexual harassment accusations in colleges - to see if the accused and accusers populations have recurrent profiles.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-03 08:23||   2017-01-03 08:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Chesney Hatfield1534, I'm with you, brother, but I DON'T understand liberals at all. If you want a visual, I'm that dog [I love dogs!] that has the confused look on his face when you do a magic trick with his favorite ball. I don't know how the LibProgs make it through life without analyzing their lives.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-01-03 08:51||   2017-01-03 08:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Any society is going to have elites. I much prefer to have elites by achievement/merit vs elites who had a head start simply because of who their parents are.
Posted by Cheaderhead 2017-01-03 09:11||   2017-01-03 09:11|| Front Page Top

#10 I love living in the Boston area - so many people to piss off.
Posted by Raj 2017-01-03 12:32||   2017-01-03 12:32|| Front Page Top

#11 When I lived there,Raj, I had a hard time convincing people I wasn't in the KKK and that The Beverly Hillbillies was not a documentary. Also that in Alabama it does get cold in Winter and we do have heat in our homes.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2017-01-03 15:49||   2017-01-03 15:49|| Front Page Top

#12 But are snakepits an important part of religious ceremonies Deacon? :)
Posted by CrazyFool 2017-01-03 16:22||   2017-01-03 16:22|| Front Page Top

#13 You go, #6 Chesney! :-D
Posted by Barbara 2017-01-03 16:29||   2017-01-03 16:29|| Front Page Top

#14 Was the study called Cash Cab?
Posted by swksvolFF 2017-01-03 17:18||   2017-01-03 17:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Do they know a cowboy in Commanche, or the coal miner in Blue field, the anti-castro shop owner in Miami, or farmer in Idaho?

Makes you wonder if "elite" means "American" anymore.
Posted by Nero White 3083 2017-01-03 20:24||   2017-01-03 20:24|| Front Page Top

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