2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)(I'll regret this) starting around 1970, black wages started to rise and white wages started to fall [View all]
This is also true for male and female wages: women started to make more, and men less.
Sanders is running on a platform predicated on wage stagnation over the past 40 years, but that is literally only true for white males (for that matter white males' wages and incomes have gone down, while everyone else's have gone up).
Once white males stopped having a stranglehold on "real" jobs, their wages went down. This is undeniable, and in fact it was one of the chief arguments by the right against opening up jobs to minorities and women.
The past 40 years have seen unprecedented increases in both wages and incomes by every single demographic group except white males. A campaign based on undoing that will probably face some opposition by all those other groups.
This isn't rocket science.