Derogatory term for people from places like San Francisco [duplicate]
City slicker
informal, derogatory
A person with the sophistication and values generally associated with urban dwellers. (Oxford Living Dictionaries)
someone who lives in a city and does not understand what life outside a city is like (Merriam-Webster)
While the usual emphasis is on the lack of knowledge about rural life and skills needed there, it also applies to people who are arrogant about living in the city. From Wikipedia:
City slicker was derisively given to people from the urban Eastern United States when they took on an attitude that their lifestyle and access to the culture of city life gave them superior intelligence. [...]
The archetypal city slicker is depicted as a spoiled, selfish, lazy, rich person who considers people living on farms to be poor and ignorant.
And it certainly is derogatory like "redneck".
Recently in the United States, I've heard the term coastal elite growing in use.
The term is referenced in Salon in an article titled '“Real Americans” vs. “coastal elites”: What right-wing sneers at city dwellers really mean'
Then, there is the popular expression “coastal elites” — an all-encompassing term for any educated professional who lives in a major city in California or along the Eastern seaboard.
Since many U.S. liberal cities appear on the east or west coast, referring to urban people, professionals, figures or pundits as coastal in a derogatory way seems to be growing in popularity among those who wish to disparage such types.
I live in Chicago, in the American Midwest. Although many people here refer to "The coast of Lake Michigan," Chicagoans would only qualify as "coastal" in a political sense by figurative extension of the urban elite epithet.
Currently, it's libtard. If they were young, possibly hipster.
See for example Google or Urbandictionary (the place to go for derogatory terms).
elitist
noun
a person having, thought to have, or professing superior intellect or talent, power, wealth, or membership in the upper echelons of society: He lost a congressional race in Texas by being smeared as an Eastern elitist.
a person who believes in the superiority of an elitist class.
from Dictionary.com
For example, from "San Francisco Man In Massive 'Wife Swap' Fallout", Huffington Post, March 24, 2009:
Fowler’s stint on the ABC reality show last month, in which he called a rural Missouri woman spending two weeks in his San Francisco home stupid and simple, has made him famous in the worst way.
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Three weeks later, Fowler’s “Wife Swap” antics are still a YouTube sensation, with at least 10 postings from the show’s Jan. 30 episode displayed on the Web site, most with headings such as “ridiculous elitist” and “elitists gone wild.”
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His performance evoked a stereotype of the San Francisco elitist liberal — the tree-hugging do-gooder who acts morally superior while putting down others.