The Best Quotations From Charles Murray’s “Coming Apart: The State Of White America, 1960-2010″

Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 has been one of the most innovative and talked about political books of 2012 with good reason.

It’s a sobering book that talks about the huge chasm that has developed between the elite and the rest of America over the last 50 years.

In the 1963 Current Population Survey, a divorced person headed just 3.5 percent of American households, with another 1.6 percent headed by a separated person. — P.4

If filmmakers in 1963 wanted the approval of the Production Code of Motion Picture Association of America, which almost all of them still did, the dialogue could not include any profanity stronger than hell or damn, and there had been dramatic justification even for them. Characters couldn’t take the name of the Lord in vain, or ridicule religion, or use any of form of obscenity — meaning just about anything related to the sex act….the plot couldn’t present sex outside of marriage as attractive or justified. Homosexuality was to be presented as a perversion. Abortion? “The subject of abortion shall be discouraged, shall never be more than suggested, and when referred to shall be condemned,” said the code. — P.5

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