[oblomov]

I sympathize. I'm a fish out of water, too. A Midwestern straight, white, conservative male living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Although I had an upper-middle class upbringing, many of my friends were working class and I maintain these friendships to this day.

The cultural divide in the US has widened markedly over the past 20 years. Just being at FR makes me a class traitor.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[Buckeye McFrog]

Those are not unlike the dynamics that existed in the country and led to the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828.

[Jack Hammer]

White, male, and straight - VERY much out of fashion these days.

The hipsters now are all black, female, homosexual - or pretending to be.

[Billthedrill]

Been a tough eight years for white middle class men and women who don't happen to qualify for any of the Protected Classes, a term once held in shameful irony and now very much officially approved.

I don't see Trump so much the beneficiary of the festering resentment as Hillary the arrogant, tone-deaf bully about to run into a haymaker. She'll never know.

[Pelham]

ping

[MissEdie]

Try being a straight, Christian, Southern lady. Everybody always assumes I’m racist because I’m Southern, and just because I speak with a drawl people think I’m stupid. When I went to college at the University of South Carolina, the pop-culture stereotypes I had to try to live down were Daisy Duke and Elly Mae Clampet.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Yale doesnt want diversity. They want socialist conformity.

[Tallguy]

What amazes me is that someone only 31 years old would think it’s important to write a memoir. I mean you’ve barely started your life, right? Well, if our president can write a pair of phony autobiographies at a similar age, I suppose it’s ok for the rest of us.

[jeannineinsd]

Thanks for posting this review. I just checked this book out from the library. I’ll start reading it tonight.

[AFreeBird]

>>> Just being at FR makes me a class traitor. <<<

No, I makes you an American! One who gets it.

Never give up - never surrender.

[JPJones]

. “Why is it that there aren’t many people—or any people—from a background like mine at places like Yale?”

Ahh gee, because they’re purposely putting white males to the back of the bus?