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“I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility.”

With a 22% response rate, her survey sample is not really enough to support ANY conclusion

But she seriously expected that Ivy League upper-middle-class blacks would feel themselves to have more in common with working-class/underclass blacks than with middle-class whites?

I live in a nice area of Nashville....not far from Spotted Al. I’m 50 and work a lot and am fortunate.

We have a few black families here and there around here. A renown heart surgery family, Titans, real estate folks, some of the old antebellum freedmen/mulatto merchant class black families still here....anyhow....all successful.

I can tell you because I know them and my kids play ball and go to school with their’s.

They don’t hang in the hood. They hang with us.

That’s life.

That doesn’t mean they might not have kinfolk in Sugar Ditch they still get on with but they have assumed what would be called white upper middle class lifestyle.

But...a big but.......many still vote Dem. I’ve seen no evidence that wealth changes that.