Chetty’s Top 25 Working Class Whitetopias
14th May 2015
Steve Sailer runs the numbers.
Harvard economist Raj Chetty’s Equality of Opportunity Project has ranked 2,478 United States counties by upward mobility in income of young people from what their parents earned in 1996-2000 to what they earned in 2011-2012.
Here are Chetty’s Top 25 best counties out of all 2,478 for young people whose families were in the bottom half of the income distribution (determined on a national basis) in the later 1990s. Chetty is looking at IRS reported income for a combination of people who moved and for people who were permanent residents.
I haven’t looked in detail at each one, but, yeah, they’re basically pretty much all white.