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You, Too, Can Join Royal Ranks

Noted: None of this means it?s easy in America for someone from a lower economic class to find and marry someone from a higher class. “Assortative mating”?the human urge to pair up with someone who is similar to you?is on the increase in the U.S., according to research by sociologists Robert Mare of UCLA and Christine Schwartz of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They found that those with college degrees are marrying people with college degrees at higher rates than at any time in the last half-century.