"college-educated", in the US context, is a long way from "elite" "Some college" is now ~60% of the population (closer to 2/3 in recent generations), so a simi

"college-educated", in the US context, is a long way from "elite" "Some college" is now ~60% of the population (closer to 2/3 in recent generations), so a similar characterisation on the wealth axis would be households with USD 100k or more in (pre-tax!) assets; holding the equivalent of a few cars or a small condo also does not strike me as being very "elite". (in short, it would appear that "elite" in US discourse has become as meaning-free as "middle-class")