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@hilsy85: I think it's in part because the majority of people don't want to define themselves as "poor" or "lower class" since both terms have negative conotations. On the flip side, people who make salaries well outside of the "middle" income in the US don't feel like they are "rich" because of ideas about what that word means.
For me, middle class is an income level, but it's also social - how you value education and money, and the type of work you do, to an extent.
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Class implies status. In grad school we were not allowes to use "class" rather we said middle income, low income, high income extra. And in part what determined your income was your purchasing power to @MsLipGloss: point.
@Looch: mentioned someone's class determined by their last name. That made me think of the Romney's when they deacribed how they struggled when they were first married and Mitt was in law school.
Yes! @yoursilverlining: That is why we have have the term Upper Middle Class.
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@yoursilverlining: Yup I totally agree. Nearly everyone seems to think of themselves as middle class, regardless of what income bracket they fall into. In fact, I'd be curious to open a poll to see if I'm right.
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@Navy_Mommy: agreed, totally depends where you live...I think being middle class living on the east/west coasts is different from middle class in the middle of the country.
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@sunny: @yoursilverlining: I actually used to think of myself as poor or "working class" (I defined that as living paycheck to paycheck) until I read articles about what it means to be middle class. Even though I'm not working now, our household income still places us in the middle class, though we're obviously on the low end now, especially in NYC. But we both also have masters' degrees and work in careers that require degrees.
I feel like I will always feel poor even though I'm not.
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