>I don't think even most American white people view their economic status and fear of the future through the lens of their own racial identity. Personally, I w

>I don't think even most American white people view their economic status and fear of the future through the lens of their own racial identity. Personally, I would also prefer to leave race out of it. However, in the Democratic Party 2020 primary, racial identity and "intersectionality" is at the top of everyone's mind. In that environment, I think it is unwise to address every racial group by name except for the largest one. >This isn't a racial issue - the decline of Middle America is not the decline of white America. The data shows that something uniquely bad is happening to white Americans [0]: "We focus on non‐Hispanic whites because their mortality trends were particularly adverse in the last decade and differ from those of non‐Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics." "The underlying mechanisms driving mortality trends for non‐Hispanic whites are fundamentally different from those driving trends for other racial/ethnic groups, as suggested by James and Cossman (2017)." [0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/padr.12249 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/padr.12249