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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"We drive old cars!"

I think this has been settled for a long time. ALL Americans live in the belief that they are middle class whether they are struggling with a retail job in southwest Virginia or sending their kids to private school even though they are in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase school cluster.[/quote]
...and that's the problem. Until the upper income recognize that they are showing how out of touch they are in comparison to the rest of the country, they will alienate voters. Especially outrageous is when people on DCUM see an individual earning $100,000 as "poor."

My brother and SIL earn about $140,000, with one toddler. They really wanted to move to Bethesda for the top school district and closer access to his job  but it was too expensive, and so they settled for Gaithersburg. Living in DC? Out of consideration entirely, even though my brother works In the city. It's a long Metro ride in, but that's what he and real middle-income households have to do.

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