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Not particularly — San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago, Minneapolis, many other “hip” cities are filled with the elite rentiers. Finance, Entertainment, Law, and Minority Grievance coalitions would be as strong as ever.

Much of the domestic paralysis to respond to how technology has eroded Western military dominance to the point where tribes in Pakistan can nuke without reprisal DC and NYC, is based on the struggle between middle class “exurb” dwellers in say, outlying suburbs of Forth Worth and Simi Valley, and the “hip-cool” trendoids in the Upper East Side, Georgetown, Malibu, and Scarsdale.