&gt; counter-culture types, they can be incredibly insular, superficial, and tribal<p>This applies to all types of people, rich, poor, conservative, progressive and the stuff in between. On a meta-scale it would be the way a country might react to immigrants, and like a self-similar fractal the sentiment works at smaller and smaller scales like seaboard, North&#x2F;South, state, county, town etc. I guess the underlying mentality is, <i>hey we made this area for people like us, not people like you. Now you&#x27;re ruining it by changing what it is...</i><p>Using the counter-culture area as an example, if large numbers of people move to an edgy place shaped by artists, musicians, bums, gender&#x2F;sexual aberrations and people who generally reject what other areas have to offer, and they don&#x27;t want to be part of the existing social fabric then they&#x27;re treated in a way analogous to how an immune system would antagonize a foreign body. It could just as easily be old money getting shitty with new money flooding their uppity neighborhood with unacceptable values or garish sensibilities.<p>IOW: people generally don&#x27;t like change. Especially if it&#x27;s not in their favor or to their taste.<p>&gt; looking down on others who don&#x27;t prize their typically temporary life-style choices<p>It&#x27;s easy to judge groups of people with generalizations - they&#x27;re doing the same to you. The funny thing is most people would get along fine if they put that kind of mentality away and just spoke to each other with a common respect.