Listened to the powercouple Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig's podcast on social mobility, and they made a good point about social mobility being alienating as the successful family member becomes alien to the ones she left behind.
I wonder if this is a dynamic with the red/blue divide in America, with upwardly mobile people becoming meritocratic Democrats and alienating themselves from their more red-state lower income families. Obviously many upwardly mobile low-income Republicans stay conservative even as they become successful. Maybe culturally they stay more attuned to lower-class uneducated red-staters.
The more educated upwardly mobile become liberal while the less educated or more mercenary, less empathetic upwardly mobile remain conservative.
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