Table of Contents
Prologue: November 21, 1963 1
Part I The Formation of a New Upper Class
1 Our Kind of People 23
2 The Foundations of the New Upper Class 46
3 A New Kind of Segregation 69
4 How Thick Is Your Bubble? 100
5 The Bright Side of the New Upper Class 116
Part II The Formation of a New Lower Class
6 The Founding Virtues 127
7 Belmont and Fishtown 144
8 Marriage 149
9 Industriousness 168
10 Honesty 189
11 Religiosity 200
12 The Real Fishtown 209
13 The Size of the New Lower Class 226
Part III Why It Matters
14 The Selective Collapse of American Community 236
15 The Founding Virtues and the Stuff of Life 253
16 One Nation, Divisible 269
17 Alternative Futures 278
Acknowledgments 307
Appendix A Data Sources and Presentation 310
Appendix B Supplemental Material for the Segregation Chapter 315
Appendix C Supplemental Material for the Chapter on Belmont and Fishtown 321
Appendix D Supplemental Material for the Marriage Chapter 337
Appendix E Supplemental Material for the Honesty Chapter 342
Appendix F Supplemental Material for the American Community Chapter 353
Appendix G Supplemental Material for the Chapter About the Founding Virtues and the Stuff of Life 356
Notes 358
Bibliography 389
Index 399