[Nervous Tick]

It should be noted and remembered that Charles Murray is depicting FICTIONAL towns.

I see no support for his depictions. I’m not saying there *is* none, but none is supplied here.

[neverdem]

It should be noted and remembered that Charles Murray is depicting FICTIONAL towns.

IIRC, Belmont is a Boston suburb, and Fishtown is a Philadelphia neighborhood.

To represent the classes at the two ends of the continuum, I give you two fictional neighborhoods that I hereby label Belmont (after an archetypal upper-middle-class suburb near Boston) and Fishtown (after a neighborhood in Philadelphia that has been white working class since the Revolution).

I see no support for his depictions. I’m not saying there *is* none, but none is supplied here.

Check the link in comment# 1.

[Clemenza]

Coming from the NYC area, the depiction if the two types of white rings very true, although the Fishtown types are vanishing.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I see no support for his depictions.

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I suppose that’s unlikely in a book review. Normally, the *book* contains the support. I’ve even read reviews that do (WSJ).

And Murray’s books are about the best-supported books you could hope to find.

[miss marmelstein]

I live in a kind of Belmont. Yeah, it's fairly stable (all those annoying helicopter/food nazi moms) but when I walk my dog past the Episcopalian church every Sunday, it is completely empty. The working-class Catholic churches (in Fishtown or whatever) are overflowing.