>>There are still country clubs that don't allow specific racial or religious groups.
'Tis true. For whatever reason, foreign physicians seem to get a pass on the whole class thing (in the UK as well.) I've seen pricing used to cut out whole swathes of population, followed by requirement for member sponsorship and black ball strategies that allow clubs to wring their hands that there's nothing they can do if somebody anonymously keeps dropping a black marble in the bag.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
