SEPTEMBER 8 / Intellectual Upper Class

 

THIS GRAPH depicts the net liberalism or conservatism of six American classes since 1972. Every group has become more conservative except one.

And that one is . . .

. . . the "Intellectual Upper Class."

Defining characteristics: non-Latino white in the 95th percentile of income with a graduate degree, employed as a lawyer, academic, scientist, writer, member of the news media, or creative person in film or television.  

Charles Murray surmises that the Intellectual Upper Class "won the election with a candidate who sounded centrist running against an exceptionally weak Republican opponent."

He also says this class lives in a bubble and mistakenly believes most Americans share their political views. 

For more, go to Charles Murray, "The White House and the Pauline Kael Syndrome," American Enterprise Institute, August 25, 2009.

UPDATE: Thanks for the link from Lose an Eye.

Comments

[Ace]

. . . an exceptionally weak Republican opponent who followed a tremendously disliked Republican president.