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Computers and office parks make a good environment for rich engineers, but a poor soil for a cultural elite movement. Give those same engineers coffee and grunge (ala Seattle) doesn’t do the trick either. They may parrot the New Yorker, but are following not leading. The hanger-oners of the Big 5 such as it were.
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Following is a definition of Coastal Elites provided by Urban Dictionary:
Coastal Elite' in this context is a not-so-obscure reference to primarily intellectual, educated, economically advantaged, people in states like Washington, Oregon, California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida. They happen to be overwhelmingly Euro-American, preponderantly socially moderate or liberal, and mostly Democrats with a few "Rockefeller Republicans".
They reference “states” but omitted and should also include D.C.
Computers and office parks make a poor environment make for rich engineers, not a cultural elite movement. Give those same engineers coffee and grunge (ala Seattle) doesn’t do the trick either.
Following is a definition of Coastal Elites provided by Urban Dictionary:
Coastal Elite' in this context is a not-so-obscure reference to primarily intellectual, educated, economically advantaged, people in states like Washington, Oregon, California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida. They happen to be overwhelmingly Euro-American, preponderantly socially moderate or liberal, and mostly Democrats with a few "Rockefeller Republicans".
They reference “states” but omitted and should also include D.C.
Agree with this, other than Oregon. I consider it coastal for sure, but not necessarily elite.
I think the subjective way to look at "eliteness" is to break it down by categories. Obviously not every city excels in every category, and there's a wider range than people seem to be acknowledging:
- Wealth quantity (New York, LA, SF)
- "Old Money" (New York, Boston, Philadelphia)
- Median income (SF, DC, Boston, Seattle)
- Education (Boston, New York, Philadelphia/SF/LA)
- Medicine (Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore)
- Technology & Innovation (SF/SJ, Boston, Seattle)
- History (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, DC)
- Real Estate (New York, LA, Miami, San Diego)
- Government/Policy (DC, New York)
- Entertainment (New York, LA, Miami)
- Arts (New York, LA)
- Media (New York, LA)
- Fashion (New York, LA, Miami)
- Urban Form (New York, SF, Boston, Philadelphia, DC)
- Global hubs (New York, LA, SF)
I think the subjective way to look at "eliteness" is to break it down by categories. Obviously not every city excels in every category, and there's a wider range than people seem to be acknowledging:
- Wealth quantity (New York, LA, SF)
- "Old Money" (New York, Boston, Philadelphia)
- Median income (SF, DC, Boston, Seattle)
- Education (Boston, New York, Philadelphia/SF/LA)
- Medicine (Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore)
- Technology & Innovation (SF/SJ, Boston, Seattle)
- History (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, DC)
- Real Estate (New York, LA, Miami, San Diego)
- Government/Policy (DC, New York)
- Entertainment (New York, LA, Miami)
- Arts (New York, LA)
- Media (New York, LA)
- Fashion (New York, LA, Miami)
- Urban Form (New York, SF, Boston, Philadelphia, DC)
- Global hubs (New York, LA, SF)
That’s all well and good, but the thread already defines the eliteness being discussed.
Coastal Eliteness (NYC, San Francisco, DC, LA, Boston)
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