American Gentry, or, the GOP's College-Educated Whites

[H. Ross Peron]

Reminds one of the Court vs Country Party divide in 18th Century England.

The only thing I would add to the article is that the local gentry does not just exist in the smaller metropolitan areas or the countryside but even in core cities like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington DC. While the billionaires run multinational corporations or deal with high finance, the local gentry handles more humdrum business such as constructing the skyscrapers in which the ultrawealthy as well as the professional managerial class will work in. Donald Trump and his father are classic examples of Outer Borough local gentry.

[H. Ross Peron]

A subsection of this group would be the party kids : They go to a party school; CSU Fullerton as an example; but then they don't need to worry; because their parent knows someone who works in sales management.

CSU Fullerton is one of the flagship academies of the California State University system. Bizarre to describe it as mainly a party school when it has thousands of students from middle class or even first generation college student backgrounds.