This question shouldn't be in the political board, should be in forum community or off-topic. Of course I am doing better, I moved out of a suburban sh**thole to go to college.
This is a classic political question, Ronald Reagan built his re-election campaign in 1984 around it, this is the perfect forum for it.
It's classic political rhetoric. Just because it's used doesn't make it meaningful, and it has extremely limited utility in this election, which is basically a culture war with some collateral damage in the political center.