Conditions for almost everyone who's not a working-class white man have improved. But it doesn't change the fact that there is a large group of people who have

Conditions for almost everyone who's not a working-class white man have improved. But it doesn't change the fact that there is a large group of people who have done very poorly and tend to vote for people who pander to their grievances. The fact that the economic crisis made things markedly worse for these people doesn't bode well for politics in the next few years, if history is any guide.