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Ross Douthat: The roots of white anxiety

By Alliance Alert

Ross Douthat writing in the New York Times: "Last year, two Princeton sociologists, Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford, published a book-length study of admissions and affirmative action at eight highly selective colleges and universities. ... This provides statistical confirmation for what alumni of highly selective universities already know. The most underrepresented groups on elite campuses often aren?t racial minorities; they?re working-class whites (and white Christians in particular) from conservative states and regions. Inevitably, the same underrepresentation persists in the elite professional ranks these campuses feed into: in law and philanthropy, finance and academia, the media and the arts."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 19, 2010 (boomark / email).