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BILL
BEAR is a plumbing contractor in southern Ohio. [Caution: strong language]
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MICHAEL
BIRDWELL is a historian at Tennessee Tech University
and is an editor of the Encyclopedia of Appalachia.
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DAVID
BROOKS is a columnist for The New York Times and the author of Bobos in Paradise:
The New Upper Class and How They Got There.
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DAVID
PATRICK COLUMBIA is a social chronicler who runs
newyorksocialdiary.com.
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TAMMY
CRABTREE lives in Pike County, in southern Ohio,
where she works at a Burger King. Watch an update filmed in 2013 here.
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STANLEY
CROUCH is a noted jazz critic, novelist, and newspaper
columnist.
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JOHN
DIIULIO is a criminologist at the University of Pennsylvania
who served as the head of the White House Office of Faith
Based Initiatives.
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BARBARA
EHRENREICH is an author and columnist. Her latest
book is called Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in
America and features her experiences working at minimum
wage jobs.
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DANA
FELTY hails from Morgantown, Kentucky (pop 2,544).
She attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and now
works as a journalist in Savannah, GA.
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PAUL
FUSSELL was a professor of English at the University
of Pennsylvania and author of Class: A Guide Through the
American Status System.
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LAWRENCE
OTIS GRAHAM is the author of Our Kind of People:
Inside America’s Black Upper Class.
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PAT
GULDEN runs the Eastern Seaboard’s largest
retail outlet for concrete lawn ornaments, located in suburban
Baltimore.
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R.
COURI HAY is a publicist and society columnist in
New York City.
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BENILDE
LITTLE is a novelist who wrote the bestseller Good
Hair.
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CARLOTTA
MILES is a psychiatrist in Washington DC.
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LANG
PHIPPS is a musician and writer from New York City.
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JOE
QUEENAN is an author and columnist. His most recent
book is Balsamic Dreams: A Short but Self-Important History
of the Baby Boomer.
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DAN
RODRICKS is a columnist for the Baltimore Sun.
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GINIE
POLO SAYLES has written How to Marry the Rich
and How to Meet the Rich, and teaches classes across
the country on improving one’s social situation.
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BRYON
SMITH is a retired fireman and part-time general
contractor in central New Jersey.
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TOM
SMITH is a teacher in Burlington, Vermont. He served
on the Burlington city council.
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ROBERT
A.M. STERN is an architect in New York City and
the Dean of the Yale School of Architecture.
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ELEANOR
WELLER is an interior decorator in Baltimore who
has written The Golden Age of America’s Gardens: Proud
Owners, Private Estates, 1890-1940.
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