[lbo-talk] Oprah does class

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Sep 8 14:38:51 PDT 2006


On Sep 7, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Stephen E Philion wrote:


> --The point is pretty simple. Elementary actually. 1) Who is
> making 70K? A mother or father of 4 kids? Single parent? Living in
> Los Angeles? San Jose? Washington DC? A single person with no
> children living in a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama? The Oprah
> 'categories' tell us nothing about what it means to be "upper class".

No they don't, but just 30% of US households (of any type) have incomes >$70,000.

Doug



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