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变化中的文化战争For a long time, the contours of Americas culture war seemed relatively straightforward.长期以来，美国的文化战争的轮廓显得相对简单。 On one side was the countrys growing educated class, who tended to be secular, permissive and favorably disposed to the sexual revolution一是国日益增长的，往往世俗和革。 On the other side were the social conservatives of middle America — benighted yahoos or virtuous yeomen, depending on your point of view, but either way a less-educated and more pious demographic, with more traditional attitudes on sexuality and family.另一边是美国中的社会保守派 ，但Decades of punditry, pop sociology and prejudice have been premised on this neat division — from the religious rights Reagan-era claim to be a “Moral Majority” oppressed by a secular elite, to Barack Obamas unfortunate description of heartland America “clinging” to religion几十年来的专家见解，流行社会学和偏见是从宗教权利的里根时代“道德多数派”受到世俗的中坚分子的压迫，到奥巴马美国“忠于”宗教现象的不恰当描述 Like any binary, it oversimplified a complicated picture，一个复杂的。 But as a beginners guide to the culture war, the vision of white-collar social liberals and blue-collar cultural conservatives was, for a substantial period, more accurate than not.但作为文化战争，白领社会自由主义者和蓝领文化保守的That may no longer be the case.那可能不再是。 This week, the National Marriage Project is releasing a study charting the decline of the two-parent family among what it calls the “moderately educated middle” — the 58 percent of Americans with high school diplomas and often some college education, but no four-year degree.本周，全国婚姻项目即将发布一项百分之的美国人拥有，些四。 This decline is depressing, but it isnt surprising.这沮丧，但并不。 Weve known for a while that America has a marriage gap: college graduates divorce infrequently and bear few children out of wedlock, while in the rest of the country unwed parenthood and family breakdown are becoming a new normal.我们已经知道美国有：大学毕业生很少离婚，生孩子，而在未婚生育和家庭破裂成为一个新。 This gap has been one of the paradoxes of the culture war: highly educated Americans live like Ozzie and Harriet despite being cultural liberals, while middle America