Politics Counts: Who Is Middle Class, Anyway?
1st January 2014
But all the odes to middle-class Americans working middle-class jobs, misses one big point: What exactly is “middle class” in America in 2013? That’s not an easy question to answer.
The place you live has a lot to do with how you experience and understand “class” in America. The “middle” is always defined by who is at the top and bottom and that varies greatly from state to state and county to county.
Changes in American communities – particularly growing wealth in urban and suburban places – mean the words “middle class” don’t carry the real weight they once did. The definition of the group has become so broad that crafting something that appeals to it as a whole is a difficult task.