How can we explain that discrepancy between narrowing gaps and widening gaps? It is likely that we are dealing with two (or more) different types of Negroes. A steadily expanding middle class has been improving its education. works hard to advance in skilled occupations and observes the prevailing behavior standards. in the longestablished tradition of millions of European and Asian immigrants who succeeded in lifting themselves from abject poverty to respectable socloeconomic levels. While nonwhite fertility rates have been growing in relation to white fertility. middleclass Negroes now average fewer children than middleclass whites. And on last count there were over 400.000 nonwhite families in the $10.000 a year and over bracket.
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