About the Authors | p. vii |
Preface | p. ix |
Introduction: The American Variations, 1900 to 2000 | p. 1 |
How America Expanded Education and Why It Mattered | p. 9 |
Where Americans Came From: Race, Immigration, and Ancestry | p. 23 |
How Americans Lived: Families and Life Courses in Flux | p. 57 |
How Americans Worked: New Workers, New Jobs, and New Differences | p. 96 |
What Americans Had: Differences in Living Standards | p. 137 |
Where Americans Lived: The Redrawing of America's Social Geography | p. 162 |
How Americans Prayed: Religious Diversity and Change | p. 186 |
When Americans Disagreed: Cultural Fragmentation and Conflict | p. 212 |
Conclusion: The Direction of Americans' Differences | p. 240 |
Combining Parametric and Nonparametric Regressions to Study How Trends Differ Among Subpopulations | p. 253 |
Income Differences or Income Ratios? | p. 260 |
Procedures and Data for the Fragmentation Analysis in Chapter 9 | p. 262 |
Notes | p. 273 |
References | p. 363 |
Index | p. 403 |
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