Re: Chart
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... the rise of illegitimate births seems steady well before Great Society
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And that is a trend in all of Western society for those years. What is not a trend outside the black community is the sharp decline in legitimate. As I said in the previous post, look at the composite. No other tracked group ever hit a 1:1 ratio (1975), and then exceeded it.
While it's impossible to create a causal link to the observed trends -- it is interesting to note that the trend is 180 degrees out of sync with the intended outcome of the social policies enacted -- and it is further worth noting that the trend was predicted by opponents of the "Great Society". This was not done in a vacuum.
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The fact that there is no noted causal relation - at least by you, and the fact that the trend was merely continuing as it had since the early 40s (at least), means that you don't have much of a case here.
What's more intriguing to me here is that after Roe v. Wade, the trends didn't substantially alter, as conservatives I'm sure predicted.
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