Actually, the white men are right. The women/blacks/immigrants, etc are the cause. That's privilege -- "they're taking our jobs." -- the belief that all the best things are yours by default and any deviation from that is wrong, and unfair. Their previous life expectancy was artificially high; it's reasonable for it to come down now that other groups of people are catching up (not saying racism & sexism are "over" but much better than it used to be). I'm sure slave owners had fantastic lifespans; all that harvest and not a finger lifted. Even less stressful when you don't have to pay the workers.
Now that they are competing for everything on a *somewhat* more level playing field, they are dealing with (a fraction of) the stresses and challenges that the other groups had all along. The trick is to convince them that this is actually fair... and that their previous standard was artificially inflated.
