Fussell’s definition of the various classes in America in Class. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class:_A_Guide_Through_the_American_Status_System https://en.m

Fussell’s definition of the various classes in America in Class. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class:_A_Guide_Through_the_American_Status_System https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class:_A_Guide_Through_the_A... His “Middle” is characterized by a lot of class-anxiety and especially the twin characteristics of wanting to appear like the upper-middle or upper classes, while having very wrong ideas about how those two classes “signal”. His upper-middle is basically professional-class (doctors, lawyers, professors, bankers, finance) prep school sorts. Same as the main demographic covered in Birnbach’s The Official Preppy Handbook