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I don't see why class has to be brought into a discussion such as this. I'm old money, but unlike the past two generations in my family, I don't actually think it's a sin to spend money. I grew up living well below what our means actually were, and my father did the same thing. When it came carnival time, no expense was spared, but if it wasn't the pre-Lenten season, basically, we lived damn near like paupers, compared to how I'm living now.

I have the money to dine at places where you'll drop 20 dollars on the glass of wine. It's not snobbery, it's not pretentiousness, it's that I have a personal taste for such items and I have the bankroll to back it up. One of the reasons that my father was so quick to become a Republican is because he had gained his political conciousness in the 1940s, when every damned word out of the Democrats mouth was, "little guys" vs. the Big Mules. We're not supposed to be concerned with issues of class or money, we're not for wealth redistribution, and that's why we're Republicans.

Rich people are not boogeyman, in actuality, most of the wealthy people in this country are Republican because they have earned their money, and they damned sure don't want the government telling them what to do with money they didn't help them make. Also, not all urbanites are Yankees, just urbanites in the North.

It has nothing to do with money or class (which are often mutually exclusive), and nowhere did I assert that it did.

It has to do with pretensions and world-view.

I opined nothing about redistribution of wealth, nor did I assert that "all urbanites are Yankees".

I merely stated that these 3 pretentious little twits apparently feel the need to "over-act" like Yankees in order to further distance themselves from their redneck roots.

You seem to have read something a bit personal into my statements (defensively, perhaps???).

BTW, it occurs to me that your "old money" statements and current "Republicans earning theirs" are somewhat contradictory. Are you spending your "new, Republican earned" money on $20.00 glasses of wine, or are you spending your "old" money (that someone else earned)?

I'm as staunch a Republican as one will find, and I don't give 1/2 a shit about "class".

I simply find it amusing that some people think that what they eat (or drink) somehow makes them superior. It's just another form of the snobbish bigotry, at which the left actually excels, but will never admit. It's up to you to decide where you stand.