ABSTRACT
The heartland of Kansas City's lower-middle class on the southeast side has been occupied by the burgeoning Negro population, although old working-class areas to the north and northeast have been less affected. The result is that the lower-middle and working class groups in Kansas City do not see themselves as split as earlier by political party affiliation. At the upper levels of the Kansas City status hierarchy, certain other changes are becoming apparent. The separation between lower rank upper class Kansas Citians and the upper-middle-elite also seems more blurred, and perhaps less relevant. The changes in the occupational base of the society are intricately intertwined with changing educational levels, as will be indicated to particular levels of the status hierarchy. The increasing years of schooling that characterize successive generations of Americans may be having a generalized effect up and down the whole structure, so that each social class maintains its relative position.
