NO!
I'm not saying that the Blues hate the truth. I'm saying that on one small set of issues the Blues have beliefs independent of the truth.
Politics will pretty much always be more complicated than math
Yes, but in this situation, a situation over which I have a huge amount of local knowledge, politics is the simpler answer.
ETA: The table linked by Landsburg has been called into serious question by Evan Soltas [H.T. CronoDAS]. I edited the post to leave only the table to provide context for the comment discussion of its status.
Economist Steve Landsburg has a post [H.T. David Henderson] about the supposed stagnation of median wages in the United States in recent decades. In the linked table median wages have risen for: