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In addition, just in the past forty years the old fault lines between the white ethnic groups have virtually disappeared. Intermarriage rates between Protestants, Catholics, and Jews have soared. As we pointed out in chapter 1, there is simply no question to us that the United States is a far more tolerant place that it was fifty years ago.

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In addition, just in the past forty years the old fault lines between the white ethnic groups have virtually disappeared. Intermarriage rates between Protestants, Catholics, and Jews have soared. As we pointed out in chapter 1, there is simply no question to us that the United States is a far more tolerant place that it was fifty years ago.
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Sheril Kirshenbaum (sheril@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 07:51:16 JST Sheril Kirshenbaum

Reading an otherwise excellent book, “Polarized America,” published in 2006. But this line strikes me as a bit naive through the lens of December 2023:
“there is simply no question to us that the United States is a far more tolerant place [than] it was fifty years ago.”
The authors couldn’t have imagined what - and who - was coming. #politics

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