Education Level Quotes
He meant gender, not the frequency of sexual activity.
His argument is that the children of the wealthy tend to become rich, not by inheriting money from their parents but by culturally and educationally becoming assimilated to and skilled at the language and norms of business and capitalism. There is a great deal of evidence to support this, however there is a political split between those who argue that inheritance taxes will do little or no good in producing equal opportunity for children of wealthy and poor parents. Therefore, abolish the tax. Others argue that the tax is needed to make up for the differential capability at money making as the funds could be used to provide better training for the children of the poor.
When the Republican Party was first founded, they had a disproportionate share of educated people. This was generally true until the Great Depression and the Hoover administration. After the Republican “Southern Strategy in the 1960s, the “solid” Democratic South became Republicans and drove the party far to the right. The party leaders began to scorn intellectuals and scientists. By 2000, a large majority of the most educated Americans were voting Democratic rejecting the extremism of the then Republican Party.
