Class, custom and myth proclaims, does not exist here in the American Republic.
It's patent bullshit, and nearly everyone actually knows that. Attempt to bolster the economic conditions of the majority (everyone from lower-upper class on down) and you hear shrieks of accusing you of committing "Class Warfare."
Watch what happens if someone gets engaged to someone of a significantly different economic class; there will be chatter at both ends. "Marrying up" (up? Up? Up what? Well, upper class--oop, wait, there's no class in America) and "Marrying beneath one's status" or the like. Someone's "too good" for someone else. Too good...
But wait. We don't talk about class--but we do have a favored euphemism.
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