I’ve spoken before about how many Americans on here, when doing the semi-regular “How would the UK vote if it were part of the US” exercise, don’t realise how much more urban the British white working class is than their American counterparts, but looking at these maps, I’ve also realised that the opposite is true. Unlike the UK, the US doesn’t really have any major areas of rural affluence, and its well-off citizens are overwhelmingly concentrated in suburbs and some urban neighbourhoods (although many of the low deprivation Home Counties areas would probably be considered at least exurban in the US, the relative point within the two countries still stands).
This point is something I do realize but I still find somewhat striking because here in Italy wealth is overwhelmingly just urban - there are a number of exceptions of course, but suburbs as a default are normally poorer than the city they gravitate around, let alone proper rural areas.
