Pew Research Center reports that “fewer than four in ten (38%) say there are serious conflicts between blacks and whites, including 10% who see these conflicts as being ‘very strong.’ About a third say there are similar disagreements between the young and the old (34%, a 9-point increase since 2009).” While racial conflicts have seemed to lessen, the perception of class conflicts has grown according to Pew: “The proportion of whites who say there are strong conflicts between the rich and the poor has grown by 22 percentage points to 65%. That is more than triple the increase among blacks (from 66% to 74%) or Hispanics (55% to 61%). The result is that the ‘perceptions gap’ between blacks and whites on class conflict has been cut in half, while among Hispanics the difference has disappeared and may have reversed.”
