January 28, 2018
Salt Lake City leads the US in moving people into the middle class, and that without larger state spending. The Mormon church plays a big role. Southern Evangelicals have similar dreams of less government and more charity, but Dixieland trails the country in economic mobility. Why? I think there's a big difference between an open society and a united society. Diversity is enriching, but fragmentation is deadening. Many people think fragmentation is when some minority refuses to join mainstream society, but I'd invert that. Fragmentation is when the majority feels the poor are part of some other society that can be out of sight, out of mind. In the south, when segregation was defeated, people didn't suddenly live in the same neighborhoods and go to the same churches. To better love neighbors, know them.
Timothy N. G.