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	<title>RoadtotheMiddleClass.com</title>
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	<description>Work to restore the Road to the Middle Class. Ground it in faith. Grade it with education. Protect it with mutual aid. Defend it with the law.</description>
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	<copyright>Copyright 2006 Christopher Chantrill</copyright>
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	<title>Chapter 1: After the Welfare State</title>
	<link>http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/chapter.php?id=99</link>
	<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2005 06:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher Chantrill</dc:creator>
	<description>We're in favor of a lot of things, and we're against mighty few --Lyndon Johnson, 1964
I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for
--Howard Dean, ... </description>
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	<title>Chapter 2: Down in South Carolina and Out in Brooklyn</title>
	<link>http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/chapter.php?id=100</link>
	<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:00:01 -0800</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher Chantrill</dc:creator>
	<description>[In the] higher Christian churches... they saunter
through the liturgy like Mohawks along a string of scaffolding who have long
since forgotten their ... </description>
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	<title>Chapter 3: Awakenings of Monotheism</title>
	<link>http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/chapter.php?id=101</link>
	<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2005 00:00:02 -0800</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher Chantrill</dc:creator>
	<description>Awakenings have been the shaping power of American
culture from its inception. --William G. McLoughlin
THE SUPRISE OF REDNECKS debouching from the ... </description>
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	<title>Chapter 4: The Nineteenth Century From the Top Down</title>
	<link>http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/chapter.php?id=102</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher Chantrill</dc:creator>
	<description>Social engineering from above in the name of those
below--David Martin
THE GREAT EVENT of the second millennium was the rise of
the world-historical ... </description>
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	<title>Chapter 5: The Nineteenth Century From the Bottom Up</title>
	<link>http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/chapter.php?id=103</link>
	<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher Chantrill</dc:creator>
	<description>What d'yer think I am, dumb or somep'n? --Lina
Lamont in Singin' in the Rain


TO THE UPPER CRUST, the nineteenth century was ... </description>
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	<title>Chapter 6: Popular Religion in the Nineteenth Century</title>
	<link>http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/chapter.php?id=105</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2005 00:56:59 -0800</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher Chantrill</dc:creator>
	<description>AS WE HAVE SEEN, the nineteenth century was a great age of
religion.  While the elite in Europe
and the United States experienced the ... </description>
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	<title>Chapter 7: The Best Schools</title>
	<link>http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/chapter.php?id=107</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher Chantrill</dc:creator>
	<description>I'll make sure they go to
the best schools, first grade to college--Mary Johnston
EVERYONE IS IN FAVOR of ... </description>
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	<title>Chapter 8: Mutual Aid</title>
	<link>http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/chapter.php?id=110</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher Chantrill</dc:creator>
	<description>ACCORDING TO THE MYTH of the modern welfare state, the
nineteenth century was a lethal battleground in which the poor and the unskilled
wandered unprotected and forlorn against ... </description>
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	<title>Chapter 9: Living Under Law</title>
	<link>http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/chapter.php?id=111</link>
	<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher Chantrill</dc:creator>
	<description>[W]e may say that the movement of the progressive
societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. --Sir
Henry Maine
IN THE ... </description>
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	<title>Chapter 10: Explaining the Culture War</title>
	<link>http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/chapter.php?id=112</link>
	<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher Chantrill</dc:creator>
	<description>Briefly, what I am proposing is that the psychology
of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent oscillating spiraling
process marked by progressive ... </description>
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	<title>Chapter 11: A Likely Story</title>
	<link>http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/chapter.php?id=113</link>
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher Chantrill</dc:creator>
	<description>Inquiry does not start unless there is a problem... It is the problem and its 
characteristics revealed by analysis which guides one first to the relevant facts 
and ... </description>
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	<title>Chapter 12: The Fourth Great Awakening</title>
	<link>http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/chapter.php?id=114</link>
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher Chantrill</dc:creator>
	<description>"When we received Christ," Phil added, "all of a sudden we now had a rule book to go by, 
and when we had problems the preacher was right there to give us the answers." ... </description>
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	<title>Chapter 13: Repairing The Road</title>
	<link>http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/chapter.php?id=115</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher Chantrill</dc:creator>
	<description>THE FOURTH GREAT AWAKENING gave us a wakeup call. 
It called Americans to witness a new generation of people struggling on
the road to ... </description>
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	<title>Chapter 14: The Problem of Power</title>
	<link>http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/chapter.php?id=117</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher Chantrill</dc:creator>
	<description>There are manifold relations of power that permeate, characterize and constitute the social body, and these relations of power cannot themselves be established, ... </description>
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	<title>Chapter 15: The Worldwide Explosion of Pentecostalism</title>
	<link>http://www.roadtothemiddleclass.com/chapter.php?id=118</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Christopher Chantrill</dc:creator>
	<description>IN 1909, CHARLES W. ELIOT addressed the students of Harvard on
the "Religion of the Future."  It
would not, he assured them, be based ... </description>
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