ARNOLD KLING
August 14, 2011
The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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You live in a county with virtually no blue collar white or blacks and you claim that people really like diversity.
The blue collar whites that used to live in Fairfax now live in Winchester, Fredricksburg, or Front Royal. Middle class blacks in the DC area will live in Prince Georges County with high crime and bad schools before they will live around white collar whites in Fairfax County.
Look at how middle class white have virtually abandon career fields like hursing or engineering because they do not want to work in places where they will be the only white.
Superdestroyer - you project the worst of intentions upon people without any evidence to support your claims.
The middle class move to neighborhoods with low crime - if that happens to be a mostly white area that doesn't change the motivation. There are plenty of middle class neighborhoods that have mixed ethnicity. It could also reflect the desire of blacks to live in homogeneous neighborhoods.
Would you distrust him less if he left out point 2 and only pointed out the positives of diversity? Or is it really his method rather than his results that you object to?
As someone who has known Bob Putnam for nearly a half a century and knows his work very well, I will note that he is not a big fan of trust measures. He is the great advocate of social capital, but he is the great advocate of the idea of membership in civic organizations as its measure and deepest reality, not generalized trust, although the question of generalized social capital, the "bridging" variety to use his terminology from _Bowling Alone_, versus the narrow "bonding" social capital that occurs within narrow groups, ethnic or mafia or whatever, is very crucial. He wants the bridging kind, and that shows in this summary, as opposed to the narrow-minded ethnicist "bonding" kind.