They have been fed the theory that liberals have corroded the fabric of family values, allowed those uppity blacks to be a little too uppity, the tree huggers put too many restrictions on industry, etc, so therefore the middle class is disappearing.

Confused, misguided people vote republican.

trickle down era. Then compare it with the lose of jobs in the USA. I suggest it but do not know how to do it.

of any particular ethnicity either.

I remember some news program like 20/20 doing a show about poverty in Indiana and the
reporter talked to a young woman who had one child when she was a h.s. junior, one the next year,
and one the year after that. Not surprisingly, she was poor.

I realize there are other reasons for child poverty, such as the country has lost many good-paying jobs
in the last few decades.