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Originally Posted by Docere
The Northeast is the least "WASP" region of the US.
Among white Americans, you sort of have an Anglo-Saxon South, German Midwest and Pennsylvania, and Irish/Italian Catholic Northeast.
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I think he means culturally. WASPism's Vatican would be the East Side of Manhattan/coastal Fairfield County, CT. Park Ave. and Sutton Place were (and are still, to an extent) WASP strongholds. Even the Jews on Park are culturally WASP.
No one really talks about WASPs as a distinct group outside of the Northeast (probably in part because white anglo saxon Protestants aren't rare outside the Northeast, and because most WASPisms are associated with traditional Northeast elites).
So culturally, least WASP is probably somewhere like Miami or Dallas, with their flaunting, more is more, Sunbelt elites.