the group of educated, professional people living mainly in cities on the western or northeastern coasts of the US who have liberal political views and are often considered to have advantages that most ordinary Americans do not have:
He criticized America's coastal elites for disregarding mainstream values.
- anti-bourgeois
- anti-snob
- arriviste
- bougie
- gentrify
- go/come down in the world idiom
- go/come up in the world idiom
- heap
- petit bourgeois
- petty bourgeois
- pleb
- plebby
- social mobility
- the bottom of the heap idiom
- the gentry
- the petite bourgeoisie
- trailer trash
- underclass
- ungenteel
- ungentrified
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