'Both low and high, rich and poor' together

Whether it was Charles Murray’s Coming Apart or John Edwards’s Two Americas, the story of our increasing class segregation has been told repeatedly and persuasively for 20 years.

College-educated men marry college-educated women, they live next door to other college-educated couples, and they all send their children to college. The great sorting machine that is college means increased “assortive mating” (elites marrying elites) and skyrocketing geographic segregation by class — which, of course, perpetuates the whole coming apart of our two Americas.