<i>&gt;Now the hip drinks are craft beers and fine wines, and a former factory worker forced to work menial part time jobs is looked down upon for drinking what he can afford, Bud lite and coke.</i><p>Two related articles that may inform your discussions of this topic:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;4&#x2F;21&#x2F;11451378&#x2F;smug-american-liberalism" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;4&#x2F;21&#x2F;11451378&#x2F;smug-american-liberali...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stirjournal.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;01&#x2F;i-know-why-poor-whites-chant-trump-trump-trump&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stirjournal.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;01&#x2F;i-know-why-poor-whites...</a><p>For context, and lest anyone think I&#x27;m taking a cheap shot at liberalism or progressivism, I definitely see myself in the first article. Particularly in my teens and early twenties, I was about as smug as they came. Then I went meta-smug by posing as an angry libertarian, and was utterly insufferable. These days, I think and feel much the same, I just don&#x27;t go out of my way to socially advertise it (or I put more effort into not making others feel small?).<p><i>&gt;There are major class shiftings and reorganizations going on, and people living in and near large prosperous cities have largely been immune and isolated from it.</i><p>One place a prosperous urbanite might bump into this shift is when a city winds up with a commuter police force due in part to high rent.