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I would suspect some combination of desegregation leading to brain drain as the talented tenth moved away to wealthy white neighborhoods combined with the general social unrest of the 60's hollowing out the cultural institutions that held everything together. Along similar lines as Charles Murray's argues in Coming Apart, we can imagine that certain groups and individuals (e.g. upper class whites) can prosper absent the constraints of strong religious and family ties and so feel free to disregard and publicly disparage them, while others (e.g. many lower class whites and blacks) may founder and suffer without such structures to organize their lives.
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