Following on the heels of David Frum’s excellent takedown of famous crank Charles Murray’s latest book, Andrew Gelman explains why the meme of the rich latte-sipping liberal elites vs. the Pabst-drinking conservative working class is, as with everything else Murray says, utter horseshit.
I would have thought previous takedowns would have ended his 15 minutes, but nobody apparently goes broke catering to the wealthy racist class in America.
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It’s not that AEI scholars aren’t capable of producing quality, scholarly work.
It’s that they don’t.
Indeed; the difference between my current home in Orange County and my past home in the SF Bay Area isn’t that there are fewer rich people in Orange County.