urban elite
Metropolitan privileged class
Urban elite refers disparagingly to city-dwelling professionals and intellectuals, implying they're out of touch with ordinary Americans.
The phrase carries populist resentment, suggesting these coastal urbanites look down on rural and working-class people while wielding disproportionate cultural influence: The urban elite don't understand what life is like in small-town America.
- cosmopolitanCulturally sophisticated, internationally fluent
- city dwellerUrban area inhabitant
- gentrificationWealthy influx displacing locals
- penthouseTop-floor luxury apartment
- privilegeExclusive right or benefit
private school · sophisticate · meritocracy · technocrat · ivory tower · limousine liberal · out of touch · bourgeois · upscale · affluent · metropolitan · intelligentsia · establishment · think tank · gated · champagne · cocktail party · wine bar
- bourgeoisiemiddle class, petit bourgeois, shop owners, shopkeepers, merchants
- merchantstraders, merchant, merchants, retailers, vendors
- urban mansionstownhouse, townhouses, Georgian townhouse, Georgian mansion, Victorian mansion
urban elitesmall-town America
Rural, close-knit communities
heartland · flyover country · the sticks · backwoods · rural America
urban elitecommon people
Non-elite members of society
salt of the earth · Main Street · the masses · Joe Sixpack · blue-collar workers
urban eliteworking poor
Employed but below comfort
working class · common people · blue-collar workers · proletariat · wage earners
urban, elite, urbane, urbanite, urbanize, urbanization, suburban, suburbanite, interurban