Writing in the Times, Ross Douthat pointed to academic studies showing a decline in marriage rates, religious attendance, and other traditional behavioral patterns among whites of moderate education. In a 2012 paper provocatively titled “No Money, No Honey, No Church,” a group of four sociologists, including W. Bradford Wilcox, of the University of Virginia, refer to the “social marginalization of working class whites who are also increasingly disconnected from the institutions of marriage and work.”