{"id":4321,"date":"2016-04-12T14:53:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2016-04-12T14:53:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:53:35","slug":"do-you-live-in-a-bubble-of-upper-middle-class-ness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2016\/04\/do-you-live-in-a-bubble-of-upper-middle-class-ness.html","title":{"rendered":"Do you live in a bubble of upper-middle-class-ness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>That\u2019s the question that this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/making-sense\/do-you-live-in-a-bubble-a-quiz-2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">PBS quiz<\/a> poses, based on Charles Murray\u2019s research that shows that the new upper middle class is far more disconnected from working class whites than was the case in the past, with consequences for the well-being of the latter group. \u00a0This is similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2015\/05\/from-the-library-our-kids-by-robert-d-putnam.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Putnam\u2019s <em>Our Kids<\/em>\u2018<\/a> findings. \u00a0Ann Althouse <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2016\/04\/in-his-2012-book-coming-apart.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">linked to this quiz<\/a> earlier today, and I shared it on facebook earlier today, so I\u2019m inviting my readers to take the quiz, and tell us what you thought of it and whether you believe that this stratification is occuring, and how it impacts 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