They tend to be big on the idea of drawing lines on a map and saying, “You can’t do anything new here.” Setting up “protected areas” and then limiting what happens nearby to protect the protected area. They tend to think of an ecosystem as some Platonic ideal that must be kept the way it is (when all ecosystems are just the latest still from a several billion year movie).

They generally support things like the Paris climate accord, which make growth more difficult.

They tend to want to “control change” or “direct change” by requiring permission from people like them. Many have a “precautionary principle” attitude about things that don’t benefit them. Like a Walmart.

I hope that’s responsive to your question.

Can you give any examples of how “Anywheres” are closed to some types of change?

W Bush was a non-elite, beating the elite Kerry. The phrase was that people “would rather have a beer” with W. Jeb was an elite, losing to Trump despite (because of?) being backed by the “Establishment” early. W and Jeb are brothers, raised by the same parents with identical socio-economic backgrounds. W attended Phillips Academy, Yale, and Harvard, which we usually associate with elites, but elites certainly do not count W as one of their own.

People may have forgotten that Bill Clinton, nicknamed Bubba, was also a non-elite in the 90s, beating the elite Bush Sr, father of non-elite W. Clinton was known for eating at McDonalds, bragging about some pickup truck lined with Astroturf (?), and being able to feel Americans’ pain. Today, after decades in DC and NYC, he is part of the elite camp. (I guess we could call him a trans-elite. Elite identification really is a state of mind with no physical basis.)

It’s hard to describe the identity groups such that brothers W and Jeb, and the same person Bill Clinton in two different time periods, fall into opposite groups.

Caterpillar recently announced they’re moving their headquarters from Peoria to the Chicago area. The rumor was there was no way the new CEO’s wife was going to live in Peoria.

Nor do I think “open to change”/”not open to change” is an accurate divider. “Anywheres” are open to some changes and very much closed to others. Many of them would be anti-dynamists in Virginia Postrel’s The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress.