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The size and steadiness of the American middle class were after the envy of the world. But changes unleashed in the 1960s pitted People in america against each other politically in new and destructive ways. These fights continued to rage from that day to now, while everyone has dropped behind financially except the wealthy. Right-wing culture warriors blamed the decrease on the moral shortcomings of "other" People in america - black people, feminists, gays, immigrants, union associates - to judge a fearful white working- and middle-class base with a lot more bitter "us vs. them" politics. Liberals tried, but mostly failed, to make the case that we're all in this jointly. In What's the Matter with White People?, popular Salon columnist Joan Walsh argues that the largest divide in the us today is not about get together or ideology, but about two fighting narratives for why everything has dropped apart since the 1970s. One part considers an America that has put in the last 40 years bankrupting the united states providing benefits and advantages to the underachieving, the immoral, and the undeserving, no subject the price to Midsection America. The other considers an America that has put in the last 40 years bankrupting the united states providing benefits and advantages to the very abundant, while allowing a measure of cultural progress for the various and the downtrodden. It matters which part is right, and the way the other side received things so incorrect. Walsh connects the dots of American decrease through tendencies that commenced in the 1970s and continue today - including the demise of unions, the stagnation of middle-class wages, the expansion of the right's "Southern Strategy" throughout the united states, the victory of Reagan Republicanism, the upsurge in income inequality, and the drop in economical range of motion. Citing her prolonged family as a case in point, Walsh shows how liberals unwittingly collaborated in the "us vs. them" narrative, rather than growing an inspiring, persuasive eyesight of a more good, united America. She also explores the way the GOP's restored culture war.
