Here is a really good article about the local gentry (also Trump supporters) in America, with some history thrown in, some of which I did not know or forgot. Shiplord Kirel refers to them frequently by this term. Remember the tragedy of the Lake Travis boat parade?

theatlantic.com

Donald Trump grasped this group’s existence and its importance, acting, as he often does, on unthinking but effective instinct. When he crowed about his “beautiful boaters,” lauding the flotillas of supporters trailing MAGA flags from their watercraft in his honor, or addressed his devoted followers among a rioting January 6 crowd that included people who had flown to the event on private jets, he knew what he was doing. Trump was courting the support of the American gentry, the salt-of-the-earth millionaires who see themselves as local leaders in business and politics, the unappreciated backbone of a once-great nation.