Republicans Divide and Conquor is not working any more

The strategy also served to distract attention from the real cause of the working class’s shrinking paychecks — corporations that were busily busting unions, outsourcing abroad, and replacing jobs with automated equipment and, subsequently, computers and robotics.
But the divide-and-conquer strategy is no longer convincing because the dividing line between poor and middle class has all but disappeared. “They” are fast becoming “us.”

http://www.nationofchange.org/why-republican-s-old-divide-and-conquer-strategy-setting-working-class-against-poor-backfiring-13893