Then it's not surprising that, so far, the Obama pre-presidency reflects the values of the gentry class.

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For right now, the drive for the Kennedy nomination suggests how powerful, pervasive and even cocky the gentry class has become.

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Austen's stories are those of the middle class, the gentry, and not the upper class, the aristocracy.

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There is scarcely a family that is long established in the peerage or baronetage which has not married into the non-titled but sometimes more solidly upper-class gentry.

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Unusually for Latino immigrants, these were upper-class people: urban professionals and landed gentry, almost all of them white.

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In contrast, the current gentry liberals increasingly reflect the biases of their own social class.

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The lower middle class of army officers and bureaucrats who rose in the revolution have joined the gentry they were supposed to have ousted, adopted their haughty ways and now share Egypt's spoils with them.

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