Posted on 02/19/2003 5:57:22 PM PST by Copernicus
The Decline of the WASPs Revisited By Robert Locke FrontPageMagazine.com | February 19, 2003
One of the great mysteries of modern American history is why the old White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) establishment abdicated its traditional rule in the late 1960s. This was one of the key events that caused the 60s to get out of hand. Nobody living in the politically-correct atmosphere of today can be unaware of this establishments faults, but as conservatives we cant help being aware of its virtues, either.
Despite the nonsense said about it by the Left, it was the most enlightened ruling class in the world in its day. America in its final heyday, the 1950s, had less economic inequality by standard measures than it has today and was a far more contented and morally confident society. This was an elite that sent its own sons, like George Bush Sr., to fight its wars, not somebody elses. And many of its faults were being remedied at the time it died, anyway it was still alive and kicking when the 1964-5 civil rights bills, which were opposed by the South, not the establishment as such, were passed.
For those of you whose sense of American social history is blurry, the WASP establishment was the world of the Ivy League, Fifth Avenue, gentlemens clubs, the Social Register, elite country clubs, top New York law firms and investment banks, Boston Brahmins, Main Line Philadelphia, the upper management of great corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad, certain parts of the military, the OSS and its successor the CIA, the Episcopal Church, New England boarding schools, and the old diplomatic corps. It ruled America from Plymouth Rock until the late 1960s
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The Good Ole Boy Network no longer meets in smoke filled back rooms to plot the course of the country.
They have been replaced by the Good Ole Bolshevik Network who meet in tofu filled backrooms to plot the course of the country.
The wink-and-nod continues.
Just curious,
I'm sure he meant to say "from Jamestown until the late 1960's."
I did a title search for WASP and had but two or three returns for February 16th forward.
Next time I'm searching under John Huang, because I've only beat him to the punch once.
If he hasn't posted it, it proably doesn't exist.
Best regards,
Best regards,
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