Diversity: Are we focused on the wrong problem?

Nonfiction - 300s - February 04 (Photo credit: Pesky Library)

In the car I've been listening to Charles Murray's Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (2012).  It seems to me he makes a pretty strong case for CLASS being the variable about which we Americans ought to be primarily concerned, rather than racial, ethnic or nationality based diversity.  His stats seem to support a conclusion that the gap between the upper-middle/upper classes on one hand and the middle/lower-middle classes not he other is widening both economically and socially to an alarming degree, regardless of race or ethnicity.

He was attacked 20 years ago when he co-authored The Bell Curve.  And he has been harshly criticized now.  But most of the criticism I've seen is aimed at his philosophy (conservative) and his solutions (also conservative).  The data seems pretty solid to me and I've haven't heard it attacked.

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