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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 that's 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. that's what people talked about. class was everything. that was not the case in america for the last decades. suddenly we are talking social class again. a divided society along class lines. give me fo...

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 -- it's a big magazine. you're 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 you're buying kale, in season vegetables at the market you're walking out with -- better to eat badly than well. >> calories are expensive. we support agriculture $2...

Diverse country and a not very diverse party, or they're 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 generational difference might map across class. i wonder if you know anything about that. are younger wh...

Republican leadership, right now if they're watching this broadcast, they're 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? >> they're on the wrong side of history. since we've been gathered these 13 moral mondays, less than one out of five north carolinians now agree with them. the numbers have plummeted. the government's numbers have plummeted. they have been labeled as immoral. they're not even republicans....

The government's numbers have plummeted. they have been labeled as immoral. they're not even republicans. these are not moderate republicans. they have attacked the sick. they've attacked women. they've attacked children. they've attacked the poor. they've attacked the gay community. they've attacked people of faith. they've 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 together across racial lines, color lines, across class lines, across income lines and we are mob...