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After "Paladin of Souls" I'm re-reading "Penric's Demon"... which has me thinking about the American fantasy trope of idealised rustic minor nobility. ("We don't have much of a castle, really, and we all help out with the harvest".)
Obviously, it's attractive to a middle-class readership - nobles are romantic and they don't have to worry about status or job security, and if they're simple country folk then you also get to feel superior to them...
...but I'm also thinking about the time I read a "Harlequin NASCAR" romance - which was very conservative in a fascinating way, and which tried to position the NASCAR-driver hero as a kind of aristocrat by emphasising his roots as a small farmer who owned land.
So I'm wondering if the (white, conservative) American ideal of the pioneer farmer switched from natural democrat to natural aristocrat somewhere along the line. And if so, I wonder when and how that happened?