You've never heard of SuperZips? Charles Murray created the term in his book Coming Apart, published 2012.
A social scientist, he uses studies and statistics to demonstrate the rise since about 1990 of a New American Upper Class. These people have extremely high levels of education/intelligence and wealth, They are segregated into homogeneous zip codes.
SuperZips are habitat of the New American Upper Class.
By his definition, SuperZips are the 882 zip codes in which resident adults have educations better or more elite than 95% of all Americans and incomes higher than 95%. They are "substantially whiter and more Asian than the rest of America" and they enjoy a culture something like you would have seen in the tv series "thirtysomething." They may "obsess about how smart their baby is, how to make the baby smarter, where the baby should go to preschool, and where the baby should go to law school."
"Members of the new upper class don't watch much television", but maybe PBS NewsHour. They don't go much to "bars with pool tables in them, bars that allow smoking, or bars with many wide screens showing professional sports."
More to come about the New Upper Class.
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