Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years

Contents

CONTENTS About theAuthors vii Preface ix Chapter 1 Introduction:TheAmericanVariations, 1900 to 2000 1 Chapter 2 HowAmerica Expanded Education andWhy It Mattered 9 Chapter 3 WhereAmericans Came From: Race, Immigration, andAncestry 23 With Aliya Saperstein Chapter 4 HowAmericans Lived: Families and Life Courses in Flux 57 With Jon Stiles Chapter 5 HowAmericansWorked: NewWorkers, New Jobs, and New Differences 96 Chapter 6 WhatAmericans Had: Differences in Living Standards 137 With Jon Stiles Chapter 7 WhereAmericans Lived:The Redrawing of America’s Social Geography 162 With Jon Stiles Chapter 8 HowAmericans Prayed: Religious Diversity and Change 186 Chapter 9 WhenAmericans Disagreed: Cultural Fragmentation and Conflict 212 Chapter 10 Conclusion:The Direction ofAmericans’ Differences 240 AppendixA Combining Parametric and Nonparametric Regressions to Study HowTrends Differ Among Subpopulations 253 Appendix B Income Differences or Income Ratios? 260 Appendix C Procedures and Data for the Fragmentation Analysis in Chapter 9 262 By Jane Zavisca Notes 273 References 363 Index 403 vi Contents ...