Chicago Tribune says all you ‘crackers’ are wrong about the Obama economy.
chicagotribune.com
Black hopes vs. white anxiety
Clarence Page
6:44 PM CDT, June 10, 2011
Race relations have undergone a curious flip-flop. Polls show blacks feel more optimistic about the nation’s future than whites, despite the Great Recession that’s giving everybody the blues.
Having a black, or, if you prefer, biracial, president explains a lot of that optimism, polls show. But white Americans, particularly working-class whites without a college diploma, have become more gloomy.
Ronald Brownstein, political director and demographic specialist at the National Journal, recently described whites who have less than a four-year college degree as “the most pessimistic and alienated group in American society.”
He cited a March poll by the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Economic Mobility Project in which two-thirds of blacks and Hispanics said they expected to be better off economically in 10 years. So did 55 percent of college-educated whites. But only 44 percent of non-college whites agreed.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-oped-0612-page-20110610,0,2405310,print.column
“He cited a March poll by the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Economic Mobility Project in which two-thirds of blacks and Hispanics said they expected to be better off economically in 10 years. So did 55 percent of college-educated whites. But only 44 percent of non-college whites agreed.”
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Possibly all are correct in their expectations! The current system includes preferences designed to put whites at the end of the line and whites without degrees are behind whites with degrees. On the other hand it may be that the whites without degrees are the only ones making a correct assessment of the future. We all may be worse off in ten years.