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Democrats? >> party identification and affiliation is at an all time low in the modern era. i think so many individuals voted today without any regard for their identification by party. instead, it was a vote that they were making along class lines, income lines. >> theres one star that hasnt been talked about tonight who will be talked about a lot. her name is caramel la harris. she just became the senator -- or i would imagine. she will be declared the senator. i dont know. im sorry. but ill b...

Everyone. he had an understanding of the voters that the political class, republican and democrat, the media and the establishment did not have. and connected along class lines to really give voice to those who felt left out from the economy and from our political system. he said it in his acceptance speech. for those who have been forgotten, you will be forgotten no more. and and, now, he faces a big test. he said his opponent should be put in jail. that hed go after her. that he may not accept...

If you go to the port clinton high school now and look at parking lot, next to each other are bmw convertibles driven there by kids whose dads live in the mansions, and junkers in which the kids live because theyre homeless. that kind of unbelievable contrast between rich kids and poor kids in new, and its not only new in port clinton. its new, really, nationwide. these larger social trends were familiar with, the growing gap between rich people and poor people, the growing segregation of americ...

High school now and look at the parking lot, next to each other parked in the parking lot are bmw convertibles driven there by kids whose dads live in the mansions and junkers, gentleman loppies jalopies in which the kids live because theyre homeless. that kind of unbelievable contrast between rich kids and poor kids is new, and its not only new in port clinton. its new, really, nationwide. these larger social trends were familiar with, the growing gap between rich people and poor people, the gr...

Race lines and class lines. >> the fight over education and desegregation. >> we have an african-american president. they achieved their goal. who can say were not desegregator desegregators? >> 60 years after the supreme court declared racial segregation of schools unconstitutional, the battle seems far from over. here with us is the documentarys writer and producer. youve been down on the ground. you understand everything thats going on. my reaction to this was it seems any parent would want t...

Fewer people identify themselves as middle class, fewer people think of themselves as lower class. people are starting to talk in terms of social class just like europe and thats an extraordinarily change. martha: it goes to this new issue of the new normal and how accepting people are of a lower class, lowered expectations. >> reporter: where i come from originally social class was everything. thats what people talked about. class was everything. that was not the case in america for the last de...

About, eating well and nutrition and food culture gets put in this classist bucket. we sort of see like the two americas in and around food. as someone that runs a magazine that is -- its a big magazine. youre talking to a lot of people out there. i feel like the ways in which we talk about food have become increasingly divided on class lines. i wonder how you deal with that? >> eating well can cost a lot of money. >> yes. >> if youre buying kale, in season vegetables at the market youre walking...

Diverse country and a not very diverse party, or theyre going to make a courageous decision to get back to their roots and be the party of frederick douglas, be the part of lincoln, be the party of so many civil rights leaders who came from world war ii and became active in that party only to find themselves disowned by that party a couple decades later they brought in barry goldwater, strom thurmond and all their ilk. >> this is ana marie cox. as steve said, we were talking about how this gener...

Republican leadership, right now if theyre watching this broadcast, theyre thinking to themselves, we got these bills signed, we pushed through our agenda. sure, we took hits in the press for us. sure, there are these people squawking on our lawn, but we win and they lose. why are they not right about that? >> theyre on the wrong side of history. since weve been gathered these 13 moral mondays, less than one out of five north carolinians now agree with them. the numbers have plummeted. the gover...

The governments numbers have plummeted. they have been labeled as immoral. theyre not even republicans. these are not moderate republicans. they have attacked the sick. theyve attacked women. theyve attacked children. theyve attacked the poor. theyve attacked the gay community. theyve attacked people of faith. theyve attacked workers and that attack has brought us together. thousands of people, like you would never expect, in the south where normally these wedge issues divide us, have come toget...