The eighty percent rule. Twenty percent of the churches have eighty percent of the members.  I'll buy that.  Its sounds likely.  I'm not a 'ghetto denier.'  A disproportionate number of influential Adventists dwell in the Adventist Ghetto, our VIPs.

Most of the Adventists in the ghetto are just passing through.  Membership is so fluid.  When we say a third or fourth generation Adventist, it doesn't mean everybody in those familial generations is Adventist, always was Adventist, remained Adventist.  I went to Union College, I am well acquainted with that ghetto, but I never lived there.