Oh in small towns there is definitely some of that too, as in former classmates doing favors to each other, doing business together, as a miniature cartel runni

Oh in small towns there is definitely some of that too, as in former classmates doing favors to each other, doing business together, as a miniature cartel running towns -- what I noticed to change in the past ~20years is that a good part of the elite left the country, so these local groups fell apart.