henry copeland: Evidence that broad-scale social mobility takes centuries: pllqt.it/nHo8yX Starting in the 1970s, Jews began, over all, a decline in social status, while blacks began a corresponding rise, at least as measured by the doctors’ directory. But both trends are very slow. At the current rate, for example, it will be 300 years before Ashkenazi Jews cease to be overrepresented among American doctors, and even 200 years from now the descendants of enslaved African-Americans will still be underrepresented. - opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com inequality demographics Send