Pretty good list, but I’d add a general belief in the value of empirical evidence in discerning fact from fiction. Knocks out a few of my most insufferable cousins right there.
52 here. Explains a lot about why my Dad and I have such a different perspective on the world. His score would be much higher.
I’m listening to the audiobook “A Hillbilly Elegy” by JD Vance (recommended to me from the Parents 2017 thread), and it really notches in nicely to this discussion.
(the article references trump, but only tangentially-it’s really about the book).
*On the checklist of modern privilege, Mr. Vance, 31, has the top four in the bag: He is white, male, straight and Protestant.
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But his profile is misleading. His people — hillbillies, rednecks, white trash, choose your epithet (or term of affection, depending on your point of view) — didn’t step off the Mayflower and become part of America’s ascendant class. “Poverty is the family tradition,” he writes. His ancestors and kin were sharecroppers, coal miners, machinists, millworkers — all low-paying, body-wearying occupations that over the years have vanished or offered diminished security.*
It’s been fascinating to listen to (and at times uncomfortably close to my past, for me).
i got 22 but im admittedly upper middle class and live in a huge bubble of a suburb
I worked at a factory for 2 summers during college and I still only scored an 18. If I’d known about this quiz and what I really needed to do to be one of the guys, I’d have invited them to join me at Applebee’s after work and then over to my place after to crack open a Pabst and watch Ellen or Dr. Phil. 
That way of viewing changes in what constitutes a middle-class lifestyle obscures the fact that adjusting for inflation, real wages for many middle and most working-class Americans has declined since the '60s and '70s.
It also strikes me too much of the stereotypical “When I was your age” type rants by older generations as encapsulated in this excerpt of Weird Al’s song:
I didn’t get the Dr Phil. Thought maybe Jerry Springer.
… buying your kindling at LL Bean: -40 points
http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/38687?feat=fire%20starter-SR0&page=fatwood-box&csp=a
- But I make my kids read Candide and my favorite music is Sheherazade, so who knows. It's convenient to be able to become invisible occasionally.
I got a 69. Inevitable given where I grew up.
RE: #387 or -20 pts for $66 frozen collard greens at neiman marcus (as learned from “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”)