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...question that if you come from a blue-collar or less affluent background, you face a more difficult transition here, and also in your background and growing up you had access to far fewer resources," acknowledges William R. Fitzsimmons '67, dean of admissions and financial aid. "There's no question that the deck is stacked out there in the real world against those who come from blue-collar backgrounds. That can be seen very directly in the steep correlations between SAT scores and socioeconomic backgrounds...
However, crime reports show Cambridge is not as safe as Boston's other more affluent Suburbs, like Newton or Wellesley...
...Armey's overwhelmingly Republican district of affluent suburbs that sprawl like a cattle drive across Red River valley farmland, that kind of talk usually goes down well. At a town-hall meeting, Armey, dressed in his trademark dark suit and cowboy boots, got riled when an atypical constituent accused him of gutting environmental-protection laws in order to give corporate polluters a break. "I'm not gonna take a lecture that I need to compromise," Armey fired back. "I've got compromise fatigue." The voter was booed down...
...fact, there is a good deal of integration going on among those who can afford it. Consider the small number of schools, both public and private, where something approaching stable integration exists. What most have in common is an affluent clientele and a determination to maintain a diverse student body. The well-educated black parents who can afford to send their kids to private school--or to live in one of the expensive areas with a good public system--are accustomed to dealing with whites as equals. Their well-scrubbed, well-dressed, well-mannered offspring blend right in with...
...amounts to a cynical bargain. White parents congratulate themselves for doing the racial right thing at no real cost to themselves. Affluent blacks get the assurance that their children will learn to get along in the white world in which they will someday compete and the status that goes with sending them to a prestigious school. Most poor black children, meanwhile, are stuck in decrepit ghetto classrooms...