> If there was going to be any effect
> of a rising middle class among these groups, and such a rise in class
> status and expectations to conform to a more socially conservative
> profile, that should have shown up.
When was the last time a rising middle class, or any middle class for that matter, "conform[ed] to a more socially conservative profile" than its socioeconomic subordinates?
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."