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As republished in Notable & Quotatble WSJ January 7/8 2012

This may explain this dilemma in part:

The members of America's new upper class tend not to watch the same movies and televisions shows that the rest of America watches, don't go to the kinds of restaurants the rst of Americans frequent, tend to buy different kinds of automobiles, and have passions for being green, maintaining the proper degree of body fat, and supporting gay marriages that most American don't share. Their child rearing practics are distinctive, and they typically take care to enroll their children in schools doimnated by the offspring of upper middle class or better yet of new upper class. They take their vactions in diiferent kinds of places than other Americans go and are often indiffernt to professional sports that are so popular among other Americans. Few have served in the military and few of their children either.

Worst of all, a growing proportion of the people who run the institution of our Countryhave never known any other culture. They are the children of upper middle-class parents, have always lived in upper middle-class neighborhoods and gone to upper middle class schools. Man have never worked at a job that caused a body part to hurt at the end of the day, never had a conversation with n evangelical Christian, never had a friend who didn't have a college degree, never hunted or fished. They are likely to know that Garrison Kellior's monolgoue is the source of the phrase "all of the children are above average" but they have never walked on a prairie and never know someone well whose IQ actually was below average."


These folks are running our educational Institutions.

These folks are employed in key power positions in the government

These are the people who run our entertainment industry

These are the folks hat have labeled themselves the "liberal elite"