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That's not remotely true. Political conservatism and social radicalism demonstrably don't correlate with personal experience in that way: children adopt the beliefs of their parents (and/or peers).

Hence "champagne socialists" and "temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

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>Hence "champagne socialists" and "temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

Can we put some numbers on this? A few offhand examples of "champagne socialists" and "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" doesn't really support your claim.

You can easily put numbers on it, lots of polling data. But from your memory just look at how there are "red states" and "blue states" -- they clearly don't correspond to personal life trajectory in the way stated. Political attitudes very clearly reproduce as culture, like language.

I'm not giving examples just citing these popular phrases which exist to note the phenomenon.

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