The Other Bostonians

Ever‐More Rooted Americans

“…On the other hand, common problems also lead to underestimating out-migration. 6 The variety of data historians have used clearly points to the conclusion that 19th-century mobility was greater than late 20th-century mobility, perhaps as much as twice as great (see also Thernstrom, 1973). Moreover, fragmentary data on the early 20th century point to a significant decline in out-migration rates before 1950, suggesting a crudely monotonic trend.…”

Calhoun, Kinship and Community

“…Divergent attitudes and values between such areas have been presented as crucial obstacles to sustaining truly national pictures of American, British or French societies. Thompson found that the fishing towns of north Scotland had more in common with the north Atlantic coasts of neighbouring countries than with the rest of Scotland (53).…”

Social structure and voting choice: hypotheses, findings, and interpretations

“…To assess the extent and reasons for this change, especially why Jews still vote Democratic and white Catholics do not, I study the effects on voting choices of three levels of socioeconomic status (high, middle, and low SES) and of four ethnic groups -African-Americans (or blacks), Jews, white Catholics, a volatile group (Thernstrom, 1973), and white Protestants (Glazer and Moynihan, 1963: 314-315;Ladd, 1993: 47). Hypotheses Three hypotheses (Smith, 1992: 206-209), which formalize my reasons for today's alignments, suggest that voters now have weak partisanship (Nie et al, 1979: 47-73) and that they pragmatically make subjectively rational choices (Boudon, 1989(Boudon, : 176-1771(Boudon, 1990:…”