Yes.. people with anything in common tend to become allies. Unfortunately, when you are a genius and the rest of the people are morons, the morons form an alliance to make your life hell. You would not believe some of the juvenile, petty, unscrupulous nonsense that I was forced to endure in various jobs.
I have even had job interviews in which the interviewers have been honest with me, and explained that they were not going to hire me, because I was more qualified than THEY were! They would say it in a way such as "you would not be happy here because it is beneath you". That is true.. but it's a double-edged sword. When overqualified, I was not hired because of that reason. And when underqualified, my real skills could not compete with the lies that other people put on their resumes.