There's a clear social division in the elite between those whose capital is rooted in extracting resources and rents and those whose is rooted in white collar intellectual activity and innovation. The Financial Services Industry is where those two meet. But Trumpism and the dominance of the GOP in the American periphery is the triumph of a type of popular capitalism which holds local salvation is in the hands of big investors and indifferent towards any social or moral cost of attracting them.

1. Recently there has been some discussion about the role of social class and Labour support in #GE2017. This chart below busts some myths 2. Chart measures each constituency in England by deprivation and divides them into deciles. Clear correlation: More deprived = More Labour