Middletown, Teetering On the Divide

MUNCIE, Ind. In the 1920s, two amateur sociologists went searching for a city that was singularly unexceptional. They wound up here. They made a study of Muncie, asking its children how often they read, and its women how often they ironed. Then more sociologists came, and market researchers and d...
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Libby Copeland

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