That struck a chord with voters angry about the wealth divide.
The attention now being paid to the racial wealth divide is a sign that some things have changed.
The comment drew derision from rivals and Democrats and highlighted the wealth divide that he must still confront as he tries to connect with voters here and elsewhere.
In turn, this has wider consequences for housing and wider society, and would exacerbate the generational wealth divide that already exists.
"To even more accurately depict our current wealth divide, we need further research into the tax-evading strategies the the super wealthy employ.
Some say that anger over the yawning wealth divide found traction in the highly charged and polarizing debate in Congress over the bailout bill.
Our racial wealth divide, as it's often called, is enormous, and, fifty years after the civil-rights movement, the gap is growing.
"The growth in the wealth divide is going to be very hard to close," said Dedrick Muhammad, the senior director of the economic department at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the civil rights organization.
There was, for instance, the issue of a wealth divide, which is a topical issue in Nigeria, and is seen through the characters of Alare and her husband, versus Benji's family.
Monarchy is the best but impracticable; in oligarchies the rule of the few and the pursuit of wealth divide societies the rich become demoralized and the poor envious, and there is no harmony in the state.
In these times of increasing wealth divide, underfinanced public schools, decaying infrastructure, major environmental issues, increasing poverty rates, a shrinking social safety net and the damaging corporatization of American life, such a viewpoint is hard to root for on Sundays.
