The Straight Facts We ran out of room in the book. Traditionals have far lower incomes than the other two subcultures. These summary measures on age, income, education and occupation are used only to show the central tendency of each aspect of socio-economic status. In reality, it is important to remember that there are quite a few people at every age, income, education and occupation level in each of the subcultures. All subcultures range from rich to poor, and in no way can they be explained by demographics or derived from some demographics, such as the idea of Generation X or Boomers.
Values are independent of demographics.
Traditionals have relatively few middle class and very few rich, but do have some, as any casual look at the rich backers of social conservatives in Congress will show. They have far more elderly than the other two subcultures. This is practically the only significant demographic fact, apart from the greater proportion of women who are Cultural Creatives. Cultural Creatives have relatively few poor, relatively few rich, but do have some, and many in all other categories. The Moderns have relatively fewer poor, and many in all other categories.