>It was peak America mostly for straight, white, Protestant men.
>It was not peak America for gay people. Or for blacks. Or for women.
It makes me sad how often discussion of any particular social question on this site gets derailed into a discussion of identity politics.
In 1950, Americans owned 75% of all the cars in the world. Surely, black Americans owned cars at a lower rate than white Americans did, but they probably owned cars at a higher rate than whites in Sweden, France or the UK did. The point is that there are major influences on prosperity that cannot be reduced to the same old identity-politics tropes.
>It was not peak America for gay people. Or for blacks. Or for women.
It makes me sad how often discussion of any particular social question on this site gets derailed into a discussion of identity politics.
In 1950, Americans owned 75% of all the cars in the world. Surely, black Americans owned cars at a lower rate than white Americans did, but they probably owned cars at a higher rate than whites in Sweden, France or the UK did. The point is that there are major influences on prosperity that cannot be reduced to the same old identity-politics tropes.