An interesting fact: 24 Senators, all but 1 Democratic, voted against Bill Clinton's welfare reform act. 4 Senators, two R, two D, voted against the Crime Bill.
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I really think that the way that the Obama era felt (to whites?) like a social revolution and an economic retrenchment has blinded a lot of us to the fundamental structure of a democracy, and accordingly how fragile minority political power is.
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That's why it is guarded so jealously. That also has something to do with why it feels elitist: minority groups probably do have to rely on the support of the elite in a way a majoritarian movement does not.
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tl;dr: even when poor white people lose in American politics, somebody's fighting for them. Whereas minorities (let alone queer people)... whether or not anybody gives a fuck about us is much more dicey.
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