There is no question that the communities where Trump received crucial backing — rural to small-city America — are, in many ways, on a downward trajectory. All 12 of these states voted for Donald Trump: Arkansas, Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. To recommend that for white working class men just fuels class anger. The declining employment and salaries of men without college degrees make them less attractive as marriage partners. degrees, “marriage has become the commitment device that supports intensive joint investments in children,” a project for “raising economically-successful children.”This produces a brutal form of intergenerational transmission.

Source: New York Times July 20, 2017 09:11 UTC