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anymore.

Yes, aren't you really talking about a socio-economic bipolarization? More serious, by far among blacks than whites, but nonetheless I think you--among Appalachian whites in West Virginia, for example.

Alright. I'll buy that, but I'm not in Appalachia and I don't know what is the rate or process of deterioration in Appalachia. Unfortunately, I'm confronted almost daily with the evidence of increased deterioration in inner cities. I don't know, and this is going to be a racist statement, what the proportion of Appalachian neglect that people are to the total white population. I would say this to you that I would hypothesize that the neglected white is a much smaller proportion of the total white population than are neglected blacks. I would also hypothesize that the proportion of neglected whites is not increasing even within in the last five years while I strongly suspect that the proportion of neglected blacks is increasing, and maybe this is an extreme statement, probably at an accelerated rate.

Would that be due in part, I'm not suggesting this is the critical factor, but a contributory factor, to the higher birth rate among blacks, or is there a similarly high birth rate among disadvantaged whites?

I don't know. All I know is that birthrate or not blacks are