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He had to save the nation from its own moral failings because other men were unable to contain their sexual passions.

“No place on Earth offers greater security to life and greater freedom from natural disasters than Southern California.” Los Angeles Times, 1934

Overall, America’s blue zone is wealthier, healthier, more educated, more professional, more mobile, more economically unequal, and more ethnically diverse. America’s red zone is more churchgoing, more neighborly, more charitable, more family oriented, more rooted, more violent, less bureaucratic, and less taxed. Surveys indicate that Americans reg

politicians. Red Vienna introduced radically new and inclusive ways of living, putting up blocks of elegant public housing filled with natural light and airy courtyards. Some 200,000 working-class people were housed in this effort—11 percent of Vienna’s population at the time—and it is still studied today as a beacon of progressive social housing p

the sociologist Annette Lareau, whose book Unequal Childhoods[35] chronicled the two basic parenting philosophies used by American parents.

Critical writers in law, as well as in social science, have drawn attention to the ways the dominant society racializes different minority groups at different times, in response to shifting needs such as the labor market. At one period, for example, society may have had little use for blacks but much need for Mexican or Japanese agricultural worker

Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow.

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