The elites don t understand those they lord over – spiked
Chris Arnade: There are huge divisions and the most salient is the education gap. We tend to look at geographical, racial and class divides, but we should consider the educational divide to be just as important.
I spent time in poor minority neighbourhoods and poor white working-class neighbourhoods. I saw a lot of similarities between them. A sociologist who is on the left has more in common with a banker who is on the right than he does with a truck driver who votes Republican, or a black teenager who flips hamburgers and does not vote, or votes on the left.
The gap is not about how you vote it is about how you think about the world. The elites what I call the front row are not really defined by class, although there is overlap. They are more defined by education and a very materialistic worldview: they generally see themselves as mobile, global, secular and morally right. And they view the back row as being lesser, stuck in provincial and outdated views about the world and themselves.