Pro Brexit voters were heavily weighted to the  less educated over 65 year crowd. The  trend for younger people was to stay There s a shelf life on the Brexit fans.

This whole business about "elites: is a hard sell by the likes of the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch and others..The Tea Party and the Reform Party were never from the ground up, they were always from the billionaires -who set them up and funded them and publicized  them-  down to those whose whose anger and fear and bigotry they sought to inflame and exploit..