The recent KY governor election illustrates this point perfectly. Bevin campaigned hard against the ACA and his deepest support came from poor white people most impacted by this stance.

if you look at most statistics regarding poverty in America, you will notice most polls divide poverty by race in order to show how Blacks and Latinos are alarming more poor as a group than whites. Most of the time you don't get the rationalization behind why this is. Whites make up the majority of the nation, and through government intervention have been able to keep their heads above water. This is some whites, not all. Even with government intervention many whites, more than African Americans and Latinos by the way are poor in this country. If groups are always to be lumped together so that racism can help politicians get elected then which group is the must gullible? I believe if the statistics were reported in a manner in which we really understood that just how many whites in this nation are suffering due to the shenanigans of these politicians we would be on the road to correcting a problem that has existed in this nation since inception.

What many in this nation need to understand is the fact that the nation is becoming equal when you begin to count minorities and whites. Soon the whites will not be the majority in this nation and all of this racism and degradation that has been visited upon the Native American and all other minorities is going to begin to bring the country down. Minorities have bad schools in their communities, they are prohibited from many opportunities that would allow them to function better in a global world, in my opinion this will lead to the downfall of this nation. A nation that is not prepared for the future because of racism is a nation doomed to fail. That means all of us, not just minorities.

to achieve in the US than in some other countries.

What they mean when they say illogical shit like "keep government out of my medicare" is really more like "Hey government, stop providing the social safety net to minorities, and send more to me and mine. Because those non-beige people are all drug dealers and welfare queens. Saints Reagan and Rush told me so!"

or won't admit that racism persists who are the problem.

Until we deal with race in this country, there will be no improvement.

Economic equality be damned. There has been some economic parity between the races, but that has NOT stopped racism and discrimination.

It's the racism itself that fuels economic inequality and class disparities.