I spent a while thinking about your comment. While doing so, I remembered these two tables that I encountered in the book Social Class in America: The Evaluation of Status (1960). Here they are: http://imgur.com/xoKlu6l,LJ977Ns Keep in mind this was written in 1960, and I'm not sure how much it has changed. I imagine that it has stratified even more. Based on this classification, I most closely identify with Upper-Lower, but I'm sure I grew up somewhere in between LM and UL. But, having traveled and lived in various places in the "third world," the kind of jobs I get out there put me into a higher class. It is thus a tempting aspect of emigrating. Judging by your pairing me with people in fight-or-flight, impoverished mode, I'm going to guess you're UM.