Southerners, Facing Big Odds, Believe in a Path Out of Poverty [The New York Times]
By Patricia Cohen, The New York Times, July 4, 2019 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A widening income gap and sagging social mobility have left dents in the American dream. But the belief that anyone with enough gumption and grit can clamber to the top remains central to the nation’s self-image. And that could complicate Democratic efforts to frame the 2020 presidential election as a referendum on a broken economic system. Americans, who tend to link rewards to individual effort, routinely overestimate...