So now we know what influenced James ‘Davenport’ Vance.
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I figured they were working class or possibly alienated underclass.
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I saw a Mike Judge interview where he said that in his head they were 30 somethings who had just never grown up.
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In America, lower middle class means working class people who don’t want to be seen as working class… I grew up working class (my dad did factory work, my mom had retail jobs, we rented houses until I was a teen and my grandmother helped up with a down payment to buy a house, etc), but my dad always called us “lower middle class”… I guess to distinguish us from the folks living in trailer parks or whatever? 
So, yeah… totally working class, I’d argue! The working classes in America loved metal for sure… Reminds me that at a conference once, I saw a guy who had just published a book about mass culture in the 70s, and how while the middle and upper classes saw Springsteen as the authentic voice of the working man, many working class men saw metal and in some cases punk as being more in line with their understanding of themselves and their way of life. 
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But seriously, I’m always leary of putting class definitions on cultural genres. My experience with metalheads (for those who don’t know me, these are my people) is that we come from all backgrounds, but share an anger and frustration with how the world is, and a determination to make it better. Hell, the fantasy D&D elements of so much metal certainly come from a middle-class-ish area. Like any group, we are not monolithic, but the bands i follow generally fit in that.
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Feels like Wilhoit’s Law in action to me. Again.
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