Republican wealthy are unabashedly selfish, elitist, and cold. They can be amazingly polite and well behaved, but they are cold at heart. "Poor people are that way by choice: they are lazy." Period. "The natural order is hierarchical; we were meant to be on top."

The Democratic wealthy that I knew were FDR-style Democrats, not DLC/Third Way (very important). They were interested in creativity, art, literature, music, and exploration more than in business. They may have been deep-level selfish but not so elitist and not cold. Wealthy FDR-style Democrats have working consciences.

Both tend to be self-congratulatory.

I suspect wealthy DLC/Third Way Democrats are closer to their Republican counterparts than they are to FDR Democrats.