My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.