{"id":74088,"date":"2012-09-24T21:43:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T05:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=18453"},"modified":"2012-09-24T21:43:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T05:43:22","slug":"the-delta-quadrant-of-american-politics-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/24\/the-delta-quadrant-of-american-politics-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"The delta quadrant of American politics &amp; culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/09\/POLITICS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18454\" title=\"POLITICS\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/09\/POLITICS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently when he was a consultant Mitt Romney would praise the merits of &#8216;wallowing in data.&#8217; I agree with this, you can&#8217;t get more data than you need. Therefore I highly commend <a href=\"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/research\/2012\/09\/race-class-culture-survey-2012\/\">Public Religion Research Institute<\/a>&#8216;s survey of the &#8220;white working class.&#8221; More specifically, <strong>do read the <a href=\"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/WWC-Report-For-Web-Final.pdf\">full PDF<\/a><\/strong>. It&#8217;ll take you some time, but just trade that in for commenting on a weblog! Of course the results are strongly contingent upon the definition of what the white working class is. In this survey they fix upon the white population which does not have a college education (though may have some college) <strong><em>and<\/em> <em>is<\/em><\/strong> not employed in salaried labor. This seems like serviceable definition. The incomes range from low to lower upper middle class, with a mode in the lower middle class, so you get a broader cross-section of non-elite white America than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/honey-boo-boo-nation\/\">Honey Boo Boo<\/a>, which is to working class white America what the &#8220;ghetto life&#8221; is to working class black America.<\/p>\n<p>But an interesting aspect of the survey is who it is addressed to: <em>not <\/em>to the white working class, <strong>they don&#8217;t read white papers by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently when he was a consultant Mitt Romney would praise the merits of &#8216;wallowing in data.&#8217; I agree with this, you can&#8217;t get more data than you need. Therefore I highly commend Public Religion Research Institute&#8216;s survey of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74088"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74170,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74088\/revisions\/74170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}