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Originally Posted by CaliNative
Like New Orleans, Baltimore is pretty low "waspy". Most of the whites are probably Catholic (often Italian, Irish, German, Slavic) and the non- white pop. is high.
The most "waspy" place might be the upper Maine coast, at least in summer. Places like Bar Harbor. The place reeks of old money waspiness, like Newport RI used to (not sure if it still does).
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It depends on how you define WASP.
For me, it's an aesthetic and cultural definition and Baltimore, though not the WASP'iest of Northeastern cities is definitely WASPy in it's own right.
The entire built environment of the Baltimore region feels WASPy to me. Red brick. Lush green landscaping. Well tended. Lots of private schools and old institutions.
When I think of WASPs I think of a regions suburbs more than it's core...then I think of the aesthetic. In the Northeast, I'd say Philadelphia and Boston are both waspy-er than New York City, West Chester County excepted.
DC and Baltimore are plenty WASP. And there are wide swaths of what I'd call this aesthetic in Richmond, North Carolina, Charleston, Atlanta, and Nashville (think Belle Meade, Green Hills, Brentwood, Franklin, etc). Even Lancaster PA feels very WASPy to me.
I think once you kind of get west of Nashville in the south and west of the DC Metroplex in the NE it dissipates. There are WASP areas of Chicago (Lake County) but Chicago doesn't really have a wasp aesthetic.