 Kerry W. Buckley describes President Calvin Coolidge as a swamp Yankee in a 2003 article in "The New England Quarterly", defining the term as the "scion of an old family that was no longer elite or monied".Schell predicts that "the term swamp Yankee is becoming less known and may be unknown in a few generations….Probably the best reason for its disappearance is the vanishing of the swamp Yankee himself as society moves toward urban and suburban life."