the recent seperation is a new phenomina. america has always, til recently, had a very strong middle class.
the erosion of the middle class is going to be our downfall, i predict.
Naw. Not unless you count poor as dirt subsistence farmers in the middle class. And then, when
industry started taking hold in the US, things were as bad in the cities, as they were in Dickens' London.
The only time that the middle class was really when big labor had a lot of power. For the most point,
the middle class now is larger (percentage-wise) than in most periods of our history.