Why Are White People So Pessimistic About The Economy?

… A few months back, I argued that voters’ anger stems more from longer-run anxiety than from concern over their immediate economic prospects. … Gallup in recent months has shown a divergence between Americans’ relatively positive assessment of their current economic conditions and their increasingly pessimistic outlook.

But for many non-whites, the pattern is the opposite: They are concerned about the present but optimistic about the future. CONT.

Ben Casselman, FiveThirtyEight

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