1970s: Kansas, where Paul's parents live, is one of the less racially diverse states in the nation. Ninety-two percent of the population of Kansas is white.
Today: Kansas is still overwhelmingly white. In a period when non-white populations have grown steadily across the United States, Kansas still has an eighty-five percent white population.
1970s: The San Francisco area is a bastion for holdouts from the hippie era of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The people that Mcpherson describes, coming to the area to "find themselves," move about freely,...
