of the republican convention being about 90% white but also i think because people really aren t used to white people being p discussed as the racial group. we are the americans and everybody else has a hyphen and descript descriptor. i think part of the discussion is, hey, you can t talk about white people but we re starting to because we re just one racial group in a multiracial america. you saw you mitt romney during the convention try to play up the no, sir tall gentleman of the past. that s what the golden age in the subtitle is about. part of it that s so vexing for democrats i think, alex, is that the middle class doesn t really get the extent to which the government created the middle class, that we made decisions in the aftermath of world war ii and the great depression out of fear as well as out of optimism that we were going to flatten income and equality and create a middle class. we raised taxes. we put in place a series of programs that widened opportunity, even union