More evidence that bien pensant elites don't really get out much

What is it about our 'elites' that make them so ill informed and parochial?  Perhaps it's that all of them live in a handful of cities, indeed in a handlful of neighborhoods in a handful of cities.  They don't seem to get out much.  Wendell Cox debunks the latest load of elite bunk.  Incidentally, where did this "white picket fence" meme come from.  Almost nobody does white picket.  Chain link, wood privacy, yes, white picket...not so much,  yet it's always on these cats' lists of things that are 'on the way out'.  Perhaps is some sort of racist code that only urban hipsters grok. Like grok, for example.

Time Magazine's Sam Frizell imagines that the American Dream has changed, in an article entitled "The New American Dream is Living in a City, Not Owning a House in the Suburbs." Frizell further imagines that "Americans are abandoning their white-picket fences, two-car garages, and neighborhood cookouts in favor of a penthouse view downtown and shorter walk to work." The available population data shows no such trend.  read more »