Funeral gifts were modest and rather uniform, indicating a society that was neither affluent nor socially diversified.
But as Craig Gilbert, a columnist at the Milwaukee Journal, pointed out yesterday in an insightful piece, they are "less moderate, less affluent, and more socially conservative than the white-collar suburbs Romney won so easily in Illinois two weeks ago".
IN the genteel hamlet of Locust Valley, bastion of exclusive country clubs and stately manor houses known by names instead of numbers, the affluent and the socially prominent don't shop retail.
Blair King, chairman of the Bristol Free School Trust, said: "Our admissions policy and our catchment area includes areas of less socially affluent areas, such as Southmead and Sea Mills.
In sub-Saharan Africa, university students constitute a relatively homogenous, socially affluent group within the general adult population.
The social gradient in adolescents' sugar consumption was opposite that observed in industrialized countries being highest in the socially affluent groups of young people.
In practical terms, assessing health inequity within a society requires not only examining inequalities in health between more and less socially affluent groups, focusing on those inequalities likely to be avoidable [ 28], but also on specific actions known to effectively benefit the poorest [ 29].
Mr. Romney will need to cut into Mr. Obama's 2008 levels of support in the socially moderate, affluent suburbs of Washington to turn Virginia red again.
At the same time, each will highlight his positions that depart from the party orthodoxy to cast himself as a results-oriented reformer while bidding to win over two swing constituencies: socially moderate, affluent suburbanites, and culturally conservative working-class voters.
Patient views from 3 types of location were required; an affluent urban area, a socially disadvantaged urban area and a rural area [ 30].
