This is something that contributes to a feeling that the period from after the Civil War until the mid century as a more prolific period of technological and so

This is something that contributes to a feeling that the period from after the Civil War until the mid century as a more prolific period of technological and social progress than the nascent neoliberal period. It's one thing to give blacks the vote; it's another when centuries class distinctions are meaningfully eroded through the force of technological and social progress outright. Onward and upward.