How much of a role do race, education and class play when marrying someone?

Women's equality is a huge part of it.

The other part is that we just aren't nearly as interconnected anymore with people of different social classes. When people lived in smallish towns and rural areas, you might be a baker but marry the banker's daughter because you ran into each other all the time. Now I go long periods of time without ever talking to anyone without a college degree unless I'm paying them for something. I guess I could ask out my barista or the lady who works at the gas station, but I'd be much more likely to meet someone at work, at a bar (which is in the expensive neighborhood where I live), or through a friend (who probably also went to college, because we have more in common).

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