This description of Midwestern state school upper middle class cultural norms is so spot on. I was in this class until my divorce (so now I’m in the strange position of being downwardly mobile as I’m barely making any money at the moment but have the retirement accounts of someone who was married to a high income earner for nearly a decade) and still have family and friends solidly within this class demographic. https://open.substack.com/pub/drunkwisconsin/p/the-state-school-upper-middle-class?r=sx43&utm_medium=ios