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Most wealthy people lived in the Middle Colonies due to its geography and climate because it was great for growing cash crops and tobacco and they could sell that for money in England.
The lower-class work in factories.... middle-class were merchants and doctors and stuff............. and the rich were mostly political leaders
it was a part of triangular trade
The bourgeoisie, who were wealthy enough to have had a good education, were likely to be the people who embraced Enlightenment principles. In the case of the French, the middle class was also the group that stood to gain the most from Enlightenment principles, since they were the ones who bore the heaviest tax burden.
They voted for a democratic form of government.