re: Divorce rate at 40 year low

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Most will blame LBJ and the Great Society, but that's really only part of the problem.

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Meh. It's a big part of the problem. Changing moral values hit the country, overall, pretty hard and declining subjective valuation of marriage was certainly part of that.

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People dont just think "hey I have a welfare program so I dont need marriage" in a literal sense.

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I don't disagree. It wasn't like a light switch, but it didn't take very long to figure out how to turn on various money spigots. Anything you subsidize will result in more of it. That's an economic fact of life.

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Blacks stuck together more before the 1970s

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Well, I've said this on this board many times - American blacks have developed survival instincts from their relatively unique combination of experiences, slavery, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights movement, and those instincts served them relatively well until the 1970s. This (not derogating, this seems to be a popular term, recognizing a very real thing) "tribalism" should be discarded, in my opinion, because we can either have 1 American society (with various subcomponents) or we can remain mired in a however officially/unofficially segregated past.

We can't do both. Giving a shite about the color of a person's skin is something we're going to have to get past. Period.