The "lower-upper" class would most likely include
a. those who have become wealthy by birth rather than by achievement.
b. those who have inherited fortunes.
c. very little variety in socioeconomic background.
d. those whose fortune is derived primarily from income within their own generation.
e. those who have most recently gained the respect of the very highest economic elite.
D
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