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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It used to be that lower middle class people were in the trades like plumber, electrician, nurse - ‘blue collar’ workers

And Upper middle class were college educated professional ‘white collar’ workers.

At some point, people stated only associating in with income.  So, upper middle class is wherever you draw that line.  I do think many on here confuse UMC with lower rich.  For example, private school is mainly a rich people thing that many on DCUM think is UMC- same for nearly yearly vacations to foreign lands.  [/quote]

So, in your educated opinion, lawyers and bankers didn't traditionally send their children to private school? [/quote]
I suspect that the majority of lawyers and bankers in the US still don’t send their kids to private schools. I have friends from law school all over the country, and most of them send their kids to (very good) public schools.[/quote]

I grew up in a city of about 50,000 people in Indiana where everyone, rich and poor, ended up in the same public high school. It's not like it was all white either. I think about 1/3 of the student body was black.  I went to college across the border at Miami (OH), and I was a little surprised to learn how many of the students there had gone to private schools. Most of them seemed to be from the suburbs of Cleveland and Cincinnati where private schools (mostly Catholic) was where white people who could afford it sent their kids. The threshold for affording it didn't seem to be all that high. The kids who went to Moeller in the northeast part of Cincinnati didn't seem all that well-to-do. [/quote]

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