Clever questions,
but some were really too blunt a knife to cut to the heart of the issue. For example, I have done a lot of manual labor in my time (building and road work, golf course construction, but I haven't done any since my twenties, and then it was in breaks between semesters at college. So does that mean I'm familiar with hard manual labor, or that I was just a pansy college kid who knew all along he wasn't going to have to do that kind of work for the rest of his life? I also worked my way through grad school working full-time as an engineering technician (a blue collar world, even though it was indoors and air conditioned). I did own a pickup, though, for about 10 years. Does that count?

Yeah, I was in the military, but so were a lot of young men in the 60s, and a great many of them went to college, either before or after their service. That isn't the pattern today by any means.

My family was poor, my mom a secretary and my father and stepfathers factory workers, but I was never hungry, and I always had clean clothes and a full belly. Does that make me poor or middle class? My family thought of themselves as working class (certainly not entrepreneurial or managerial) but we had a great respect for learning and the professions. We always thought of ourselves as educated and cultured, well read and refined, but I was only the second person in my family to go to college, and the first to graduate. As for contact with the "common folk", I got a lot of that in school and the military, but I became isolated from proletarian life almost as soon as I left college.

A lot of those questions, if honestly answered, didn't really reveal much about the issues that quiz was supposed to explore.
I consider myself a working class hero, but I must confess I am an intellectual snob (and proud of it, too, goddamn it!).

"They hate you if you're clever, but they despise a fool." --John Lennon.

My most profound cultural and intellectual influences: Cuban, Cracker, hippie, sailor, scientist, Silicon Valley spook, Geographer, Mapmaker and Navigator, civil servant---but there's no hint of any of that in the survey. They didn't bother to test for any of that, so what do I know about my bubble?