CLASS: Brits visiting US for first time during World Cup are apologizing to Americans: ‘We were wrong’. I think — and I believe I first heard this from John Ringo’s wife Miriam, who’s super-smart — that the difference between the attitudes toward flyover America from the World Cup crowd and from the European laptop class is class. The soccer fans aren’t as posh as the ones who come for the Olympics, and they are seeing parts of America that are — like them — middle- and working-class and they’re thinking that wow, it’s a lot better to be middle- and working-class in America than in Britain or Europe. Whereas for the laptop class, not so much.