White Anglo-Saxon Protestants weren’t, and aren’t, as monolithic a group as they’re often depicted. Generally, when mentioned, the term WASP is not including poor ones, plenty of which exist, nor when using the term to talk about the ruling class that once was are all of those people Anglo-Saxon origin, or even Protestant, even if most might be.
I'll vouch for that!!!
I'm not so sure about all the rest of this jaberwakee… sounds like a bunch of pseudo-intellectual jukin an jockeyin around the mulberry bush to me!!!
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.