Demographically, bloggers are extremely well educated: three out of every four are college graduates.

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In some ways, that effect is more pronounced than it used to be, with more and more of the elites drawn from a narrow class of extremely well-educated people from a handful of metropolitan areas, few of whom have ever, say, been responsible for a profit and loss statement, or tried to bring a gas station into compliance with local and federal EPA regulations.

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The extremely competitive work environment, which now includes growing numbers of well-educated females, is having a negative impact on birth rates.

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But, regardless of how distasteful it is to well-educated and upwardly mobile young liberals, racial animosity can be an extremely potent political force, particularly when it is paired with questions about the redistribution of wealth.

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