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To: Albion Wilde

Woodrow Wilson’s grandparents all came over after the Revolution. He was born a Southerner, and more of his ancestors were Scots or Scotch-Irish than “Anglo-Saxon.” Yet in a lot of ways he was definitely a WASP — or extremely WASP-adjacent. You didn’t get to be president of Princeton in those days if you weren’t considered to be a WASP.

The classic WASP was from the Northeast, but there was some “fluidity.” C. Douglas Dillon, Treasury Secretary to JFK and LBJ, was definitely a WASP (Groton, Harvard, investment banking, multimillionaire, French chateau, art collection), but his grandfather was a Texan (and Jewish).


94 posted on 06/12/2024 2:12:48 PM PDT by x
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To: x

Yes, WASP began to morph into “upper Ivy League (Penn excluded)”, leaving the door open for “passing.”


96 posted on 06/12/2024 2:21:16 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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