Unlike much of the Bush crowd, which had a heavily southern tilt, many will be from either America’s east or west coast — the much derided ‘bicoastal set of liberal elitists. The same may apply to the hundreds of students or young postgraduates filling the coveted internships across the administration. Under Bush, a large share of interns were fervent Christians from the Regent or Liberty universities in Virginia, in spite of those institutions’ less than top-flight academic reputations. In short, the Obama bunch will seem more meritocratic, workaholic, thrusting and possibly self-righteous than those they replace. Expect the bars to be slightly busier and the pews a little more thinly populated.
