"To cut out the (mostly) white, upscale, college-educated, liberal middle-class segment of our audience is to cut off our financial nose," Stephen M. Brown argued in an online posting.
In a group of countries that includes Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, this middle-class segment is now the largest slice of the population.
Increased price of liquor and beer, however, meant that the working classes probably bore the restrictions of urban Prohibition to a far greater degree than the middle-class or upper class segments of the population.
Many members of the post-apartheid black middle class, a crucial segment of the party's supporters, have also been turned off and have withdrawn from politics.
Beauty contests are more likely to appeal to the urban middle class, the same segment of the population that has the extra rupees to spend on herbal skin creams.
He contended that, according to "solid theory," middle-class "buying power" is critical for growth because the middle class is a segment of society that is unlikely to put its income toward saving and investment.
Looked at as a segment of society, rather than as a segment of the upper middle class, "the kind of woman who works part-time is a different kind of woman," Dr. Frech said.
A growing segment of the lower and middle classes living outside of cities feel disenfranchised by, and disenchanted with, the economic policies promoted by progressive politicians in Washington and blue-state capitals like Albany and Boston.
All of which serves to price large segments of the middle class out of some real estate markets.
More specifically, it has become dominated by the social and cultural professionals who form a key segment of the new middle class and for whom the inclusive solidarity of the progressives has been most appealing.
In 2011, a small segment of the middle class took to the streets in protest after the parliamentary elections.
