New data show economic anxiety among white Americans has evaporated in the age of Donald Trump, falling to levels last seen during the George W. Bush administration. White pessimism defined the 2016 presidential campaign. Between 2006 and 2016, non-Hispanic whites had worried about falling standards of living at much higher rates than their black and Hispanic compatriots. …
As white economic anxiety has eased, African Americans are registering their highest levels of economic anxiety since at least 2000. CONT.
Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post