Beacon Hill has NEVER been a working class area. As long as my hometown has been around, it has ALWAYS been a bastion for the elite. We call them Boston Brahmins, wealthy English American Republicans who dominated the city until the Irish population came and in turn dominated until recent years.
Beacon Hill has NEVER been a working class area. As long as my hometown has been around, it has ALWAYS been a bastion for the elite. We call them Boston Brahmins, wealthy English American Republicans who dominated the city until the Irish population came and in turn dominated until recent years.
Yeah, I didn't want to make my comment too long but I was pretty sure that Beacon Hill and Back Bay have never been working class areas. I know Back Bay was originally developed to attract more upper-middle class residents to the city for tax purposes.
Nowadays, if there's a business opening a location that appeals to that middle class and especially upper middle class demographic (e.g. Patagonia) it's almost always in one of: Back Bay, Harvard Square, or Seaport. Or, very frequently, multiple of those locations. Case in point: Patagonia has a store in Harvard Square and another in Back Bay.
I did say it was traditionally quite socially conservative. I didn't say anything about working-class people, a phrase that has been hijacked in the U.S. not to mean anything about working!
Beacon Hill has NEVER been a working class area. As long as my hometown has been around, it has ALWAYS been a bastion for the elite. We call them Boston Brahmins, wealthy English American Republicans who dominated the city until the Irish population came and in turn dominated until recent years.
Yeah, I didn't want to make my comment too long but I was pretty sure that Beacon Hill and Back Bay have never been working class areas. I know Back Bay was originally developed to attract more upper-middle class residents to the city for tax purposes.
Nowadays, if there's a business opening a location that appeals to that middle class and especially upper middle class demographic (e.g. Patagonia) it's almost always in one of: Back Bay, Harvard Square, or Seaport. Or, very frequently, multiple of those locations. Case in point: Patagonia has a store in Harvard Square and another in Back Bay.
I did say it was traditionally quite socially conservative. I didn't say anything about working-class people, a phrase that has been hijacked in the U.S. not to mean anything about working!