Check out this New York Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/weekinreview/11liptak.html
The article was published last year and states that with the announcement Supreme Court Justice Stevens’s retirement the Supreme Court was left without a single protestant judge. This article points out that religion plays less and less of a role in upward mobility of today’s society. Also, I found it was interesting at how highly this article regarded education as a main factor of one’s achievement. I think this is interesting given the chapters we just read about white ethnic groups. The historical discrimination of Catholics and Jews seemed to have faded away. Maybe this is one reason it is rarely discussed in the school curriculum? Does the WASP criterion still apply to a person’s place in society or is religion completely deteriorating as a factor? One more thing I found very interesting about this article is that while it emphasizes the decline in religious discrimination yet it does not touch on the fact that virtually no religions other than Christianity and Judaism occupy seats in the Supreme Court.
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