Paris Hilton would have bombed in Topeka.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

Since middle-class people like my mother and father tended to identify with that the folks back on the farm, that meant they didn't identify with and try to emulate the rich nearly as much as today's middle class does. Social snobbery existed, but it was widely ridiculed. Think...