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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These cross-class tensions, especially the snobbery of the G/E, are particularly intense in the Northeast.  My dad's a class migrant -- grew up on a midwestern farm, spent time in the army, went to vocational school and ended up working for a manufacturer where he worked his way up to an executive level.  Because of that we grew up in an expensive "G" suburb of LA.  Prior to that he and my mom lived in an NJ suburb and he hated it.  He'd lived all over the country and said the snobbery and put-downs of rural people happened regularly, even from people he'd thought were friends.  It was particularly bad from people who went to Ivy league schools and so he would not hire from them and would not pay for us to go to Ivys.  He never experienced that degree to cross-class snobbery in other parts of the country.[/quote]

My anecdote - my sister in law is a complete snob.  She grew up MC and went to a crappy state school in Florida. She reinvented herself and wears Lilly or Vineyard Vines ALL. THE. TIME.  She and her husband look down on everyone, but they are solidly middle class.  It's disgusting.[/quote]
Isn't vineyard vines completely a Gentry teen thing[/quote]

They look and are indantile but grown men and women wear them.[/quote]

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