Word: nationally
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...simply, it's every country (or alliance) for itself. Israel recognizes this fact--not fair or unfair, simply a fact--and thus is able to deal with terrorism, literally spilling over its borders, better than any other nation...
South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana are celebrating their centennials with rodeos, cattle drives, river regattas and folk fests, luring visitors westward to rediscover the nation's astonishingly recent past. Wagon trains cross South Dakota, Victorian trappings grace a 19th century cattle ranch, and weekend powwows on the range continue all summer long...
This is our basic conclusion: Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal...
Only in this context is it possible to appreciate fully the importance of the publication last week of A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society, a landmark 588-page study by the National Research Council that strives to update reports by the 1968 Kerner commission and Gunnar Myrdal. Edited by black economist Gerald David Jaynes and white sociologist Robin M. Williams Jr., A Common Destiny represents the nation's most definitive report card on race relations in 20 years. And America has flunked...
What this means in real life is that as soon as the workday ends, the U.S. reverts to a largely segregated nation. Middle-income whites can, if they choose, literally buy their way into a world of racially homogeneous schools, shopping areas and recreational facilities. "These attitudes don't change as we increase the socioeconomic status of the respondent," says Jaynes. "The % higher the white respondents' income, the less they wanted to be in an integrated neighborhood...