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To: nwrep

No, Trump’s a New Yorker. The Bushes were something of a mixed bag. New England roots if you go back far enough, but GHWB’s grandparents were from the Midwest. His father settled in Connecticut and became a senator from that state, but he worked in NYC. GHWB moved to Texas, and his children grew up there. GHWB was born in Massachusetts, GWB in Connecticut, and Jeb in Texas.

WASPism is a state of mind. Pretty much all of our presidents were White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Kennedy was the exception, and maybe Van Buren was too. Eisenhower was of German ancestry but assimilated. Obama is hard to categorize, but probably not a WASP.

With time though, WASP came to imply a degree of privilege. GHWB came from that world of privilege (Social Register, Episcopalian, Mayflower and Revolutionary War ancestors, old money, investment banker father, prep school, Yale, Skull and Bones, CIA) so he counts as a WASP in the privileged sense.

GWHB would have been an acceptable member of his father’s banking firm or gentleman’s club. His son, or Trump, or Clinton, not so much, though heaven knows the investment banking world has changed a lot since Prescott Bush’s day.


80 posted on 06/12/2024 1:40:43 PM PDT by x
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To: x

GWB was only born in Connecticut because his father was in graduate school at the time. GWB really has lived in Texas.

GWB is the most disappointing president of my lifetime. Not the worst. They were all Democrats, but I had high hopes for Bush2. He just gets worse as time goes on.


85 posted on 06/12/2024 1:50:28 PM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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Yeah, Prescott the hardware store owner. Some lineage. In the real world of today seems largely manufactured, by his "club". In Texas-- called "argyle socks in cowboy boots- all hat and no....cattle"(the Crawford ranch is gone)

Just as the paper mache covering over of obama which the media served up in deliberate ignorance of controlled socialist press (my name- oba-mau-mao describes his politics, and his heritage if one accepts his “daddy” as being Kenyan, supporter of Jomo Kenyatta and the Mau Mau terrorists, and his Maoist/Marxist blatant history academically and beyond). Obama's “fundamental transformation” is predicated on division, cultural hatred and bland bureaucratic Marxist/Communist dialectic, coupled with islamofascism and globalist corruption, not to mention anti-Israel, pro-Iran threat to our Republic. Tyrannical in point of fact.

97 posted on 06/12/2024 2:21:28 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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