A young economist writes:
"Yesterday I played a tape of last fall's CNBC special on Wal-Mart for one of my undergraduate classes. I was taken aback by the following: Of the senior personnel interviewed -- the current CEO, the previous CEO and current Board Chairman, the VP for information technology, the VP for logistics, the VP for Asian operations, and a Regional Sales Manager -- all but one were middle-class, Southern whites with recognizable country twangs and less-than-fashionable haircuts. Could some of the elites' hatred of Wal-Mart be driven by resentment that members of this particular demographic could create and sustain the world's largest company?"
