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Originally Posted by Crawford
Princeton, historically, was stereotyped as the most WASPy blueblood conservative traditionalist Ivy. Even today, the eating/social clubs are quite a throwback.
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Princeton the school and Princeton the town are two very different things. Today, aside from the borough which is where the school is located and accounts for only 3% of Mercer County's population, the halo slash moniker of "Princeton" is applied to virtually the entire orbit of the county around Princeton, including West Windsor, Hopewell, Pennington, Lawrence, and parts of Ewing.
These are decidely middle to upper middle class places with frequent splashes of wealth, increasingly less and less white and more and more South and East Asian. West Windsor was nearly 40% Asian in the 2010 Census. Plainsboro was nearly 50%. They obviously even more Asian today.
The WASP label doesn't really apply anymore.
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