0 the group of educated, professional people living mainly in cities on the western or northeastern coasts of the US who have liberal political views and are often considered to have advantages that most ordinary Americans do not have:
He criticized America's coastal elites for disregarding mainstream values.
The language games are part of a larger tendency of journalists to follow certain scripts that conform to how coastal elites see the country.
They have waged a war on "coastal elites," be they climate scientists, university professors, mainstream journalists, economists or government officials.
