Zones of Poverty and Affluence in America
In BoBos in Paradise, David Brooks popularized the notion of Latte Towns: "upscale liberal communities, often in magnificent natural settings, often university-based, that have become the gestation centers for America's new upscale culture." Charles Murry, in Coming Apart, compiles a list of superzips where the affluent and the educated are concentrated:
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