The Late, Great American WASP

The Wall Street Journal ^ | December 20, 2013 | Joseph Epstein

[EveningStar]

The old U.S. ruling class had plenty of problems. But are we really better off with a country run by the self-involved, over-schooled products of modern meritocracy?

[PGR88]

You are correct - WASP is a stereotype, like nearly every other race or class in America.

I came from blue-collar, Catholic roots, but knew quite a few true WASPS from Boston and New York. Indeed, they were middle-class. Their great-great grandfathers were in the Revolution, yet their fathers were Presbyterian ministers or teachers or even farmers - not Wall Street Bankers. All solid, responsible people who held fairness and honesty as their hallmarks.

[ansel12]

You need to look at how groups vote, the WASP vote is pretty much like it was a 100 and 200 years ago, immigration has always fed liberals with an ever growing vote, which then leads to ever more immigration, which leads to an ever growing liberal vote, which leads to.......

[Carry_Okie]

It wasn’t children who destroyed us during the 1960s, it was the people running the country and media and institutions.

The owners of tax-exempt "charitable" foundations. Yup.

[staytrue]

Bring back the Nazis.