Ironic: Rick Santorum railed against Obama's stated desire to send all American high school graduates to college as "elitist snobbery" at a campaign stop in Amherst NH. Amherst's median income is over $89,000. Neighboring Milford, a working class town many reading this will be familiar with, has a median income of just over $52,000.
Amherst is well known as the well to do (rich & elitist) town of the Souhegan Valley region of NH. It is extremely odd to me that a candidate like Santorum thinks he can score political points by demonizing "elite snobbery". It seems what Santorum really means is "Democratic Elitism" or some such bullshit, which is why the crowd made up of people who are likely far richer than their neighbors just a mile or two away in Milford doesn't see anything wrong with bitching about elites.
Amherst's $89,000 median household income might not sound like much, but compare it to the national average of just over $44,000. Double. That counts as affluent, and by extension, elite. Fuckers.
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