Jared Taylor writes: “Prof. Putnam even cites a study that found carpooling is less common in mixed neighborhoods. Carpooling means counting on your neighbors to get you to work, and people tend not to trust neighbors who don’t look like them.”
TheParisReview: “Those early postwar years were a halcyon era for hitchhikers: communal solidarity was cresting (before curdling into paranoia in the 1950s); soldiers, students, and migrant farmers had normalized itinerancy; hitchhiking had yet to be outlawed on the nation’s interstates or subjected to scare-mongering by the FBI; and most cities had designated “travel bureaus” where ride shares could be arranged. Under these conditions, with these sprawling highways, cross-country hitchhiking trips could be made with unprecedented ease.”
According to the Belgian expert on ethnic relations Pierre L. van den Berghe: “The degree of cooperation between organisms can be expected to be a direct function of the proportion of the genes they share; conversely, the degree of conflict between them is an inverse function of the proportion of shared genes.”
