A New Caste Society
26th October 2014
Steve Sailer looks behind the curtain.
As I’ve joked before, when I became interested in the quantitative literature on educational achievement in ninth grade in 1972, the racial rankings went:
1. Orientals
2. Caucasians
3. Chicanos
4. Blacks
Today, the order is:1. Asians
2. Whites
3. Hispanics
4. African-Americans
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What I hadn’t guessed in 1988 was that the powers that be in Chicago would simply unload their unwanted public housing project residents on the rest of the Midwest via Section 8 vouchers, with the federal government ready to persecute for discrimination any two-bit burgh that tried to resist. That seemed a little too cynical for even me to imagine in 1988.