News people seem inconsistent in using the descriptions low-income, middle-income and high-income. Why not low-class, middle-class, high-class?
There are many persons of very high character who have low incomes but they certainly wouldn`t be described as low class. On the other hand, there are people who have high incomes, such as drug-running mobsters, who definitely are not high-class characters.
In a report from the Atlanta convention, George Curry refers to ”well-dressed middle-class blacks.” I think middle-income people resent being called middle-class just as much as poor people would resent being called low- class.
Since the U.S.A. is supposed to be ”classless,” could writers and reporters please stop saying middle-class when they mean middle-income?
