This document provides a comparative study of life styles and social attitudes of middle income status whites and blacks in Northwestern Detroit, Michigan. One hour personal interviews were conducted with 213 white and 18l black families to gather information on areas such as leisure patterns and values, family life patterns, neighborhoods, educational values, interracial contact, political and community participation, civil rights involvement, ethnic identification, jobs and occupations, and social mobility. Evidence presented in the survey suggests that middle income blacks are similar to middle income whites in the number of female heads of household and the number of children in the family. In most other areas of concern the white and middle income black groups differed. The survey found that in integrated neighborhoods there was less contact between whites and blacks of middle income than was commonly assumed occurred, and that in the integrated neighborhood where the survey was conducted, both races were more pessimistic about the end of discrimination than were whites and blacks in segregated neighborhoods. In terms of occupational mobility, blacks did not see their chances of promotion being as lucrative as their white counterparts. An overwhelming percentage of blacks stated that the school system did not do an adequate job of educating the city's youth. The whites were more indifferent to the quality of education in the schools and felt that the schools were doing an adequate job for low income youth. (Author/AM)