Should we live in high-income neighborhoods with people “just like us” who have similar educational, work, and income backgrounds…. or are we contributing to the great cultural divide we’re seeing in our country today? Charles Murray has written a great piece for the WSJ discussing this great divide. He has stripped out race and compared two towns from 1960-2008 to compare the evolution of who we ALL were in 1960 to how divided we’ve become and the myriad reasons for those changes.
What particularly pleased me about this article was confirming a long-term sense of living in downtown Hartford. A mix of cultures, income levels, ages, interests, backgrounds and experiences only adds to the richness of who we are, rather than isolating us the way some very affluent (mostly around the major cities) suburbs are doing.
I think this is a particularly important article for boards to read as our customer and employee base has become more culturally diverse, it’s important for boards to be in tune with those changes and with that diversity.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577170733817181646.html?mod=WSJ_economy_RightTopCarousel_1
