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Divided. divided along four lines, each one reinforcing the other. call them the four cs. the first is capitalism. there was a time when the american economy moved in tandem with its middle class. as the economy grew, so did middle class employment and wages. but over the last few decades, that link has been broken. the economy has been humming along, but it now enriches mostly those with education, training and capital. the other americans have been left behind. the second divide is about culture. in recent decades, we have seen large scale immigration, afri n african-americans and hispanics ...

Going to be the case. you don't solve this problem by putting up, you know, a black face -- >> faces don't solve this problem. >> this problem is 50 years in the making. it is deep-rooted. and it has become exacerbated over the last two election cycles by the tone and rhetoric of the party, which has created a greater distance between blacks and the party itself. >> but what's interesting to me is that actually there's been no change in people -- in some ways i went through the history about the republican party and afri n african-americans and democrats and african-americans, but it's really ...

Naacp, what do you think attorney general eric holder will do and when? >> i think it's a difficult question. there's a high bar to have a race-based case on the federal level. and i think the holder department will look at this very closely. the ability for them to take it to a case with a real chance of winning would require determining if george zimmerman had, over years, some sort of prerequisite to go after afri n african-american men. the naacp chairman said that zimmerman did make a number of phone calls on his neighborhood watch that could show as a motive there. it's an interesting ca...

They need to obviously appeal to hispanics. everybody knows that. but they also need to figure out how to integrate all of these different wings of the party in a way that expands beyond aging white men. their party has become a regional white old party. and it doesn't cut it anymore in america. that's what this election showed. >> well, let's talk about what reasonable steps -- let's talk about -- can you, joy, see around the country and look at what they did become pretty much a white party, but a lot of that, in all fairness, has to do with the fact we have an afri n african-american presid...