On May 11, 2010, at 6:20 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> this was brought up here during elections wasn't it? the argument
> was that it was, in part, that family dissolution in red states was
> connected to the fact that poverty and job instability correlates
> with higher family dissolution.
Garance France-Ruta put it nicely a couple of years ago, when she said that "family values" are aspirational. Stable families are a feature of the better-off, so the worse-off members of the working class think that stability is the cause of prosperity, and not the other way around.
Doug