    148

    96. According to an analysis by Northern Illinois University sociologist Robert W. Suchner.

    Suchner examined the results of national surveys involving over 5,400 undergraduate

    students.  (Richard Camer, "Science and religion: Divided we stand?" Psychology Today,

    June, 1987, p. 61.)

    97. Conservatives outnumbered liberals among American voters by almost two-and-a-half

    to one. While 39% called themselves conservative, a meager 16% were willing to assume

    the label of a liberal.  (Louis Harris, Inside America, p. 297.)

    98. In 1986, 53% of Americans under 30 were Republicans and only 47% were

    Democrats.  (Louis Harris, Inside America, p. 298.)

    99.  Fred Barnes, "The GOP lives: Right Back," The New Republic, July 5, 1993, p. 19.

    100. By 1977, fully 40% of mothers with children under six were holding down a job.

    (Nancy Folbre, The Center for Popular Economics, A Field Guide to the U.S. Economy,

    chart 3.1.)

    101. The U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1988 (108th

    Edition), Washington, D.C., 1987, p. 166. reports that wages climbed steadily from 1949

    to 1970.  See also: Michael E. Porter, "Why U.S. Business Is Falling Behind," Fortune,

    April 28, 1986, p. 255.  Michael E. Porter is a Harvard professor and a former member of

    President Reagan's Commission On Industrial Competitiveness.

    102. For a short history of the U.S. trade deficit, see Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers,

    "The Reagan Victory: Corporate Coalitions in the 1980 Campaign," in Thomas Ferguson

    and Joel Rogers, ed., The Hidden Election: Politics and Economics in the 1980

    Presidential Campaign, Pantheon Books, New York, 1981, p. 10.

    103. Michael E. Porter, "Why U.S. Business is Falling Behind," p. 258.  Statistical Abstract

    of the United States: 1988, chart 647.  For the further decline of wages from 1980 to

    1989, see Peter Passell, "America's Position in the Economic Race: What the Numbers

    Show and Conceal," The New York Times, March 4, 1990, p. E4-5.

    104. The youth suicide rate in America went up sharply in the 1970s, and peaked in 1980.

    See Constance Holden, "Youth Suicide: New Research Focuses on a Growing Social

    Problem,"  Science, August 22, 1986, p. 839.  See also David Gelman, Mary Hager,

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