Friday, February 18, 2005, 12:15:45 AM, Veronica Caley wrote: VC> I was astounded to hear a statistic about how the vast majority of the VC> public was poor in the US until the '50s. only till then?! (Perhaps: your income/occupation/class structure was diamond-shaped, not, as is usual, a pyramid.) Have you read _The Other America_? -- mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html