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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m married into a WASP-ish/Southern-ish family.

Some of the lifestyle elements include:

- dressy and dressy casual most of the time. Khaki shorts and polos for men and sun dresses for women
- pearl earrings and minimal accessories 
-[b] minimal makeup and unfussy hair but long lean athletic tanned bodies [/b]
- Think Brooks brothers, J Crew, Talbots, Vineyard Vines
- lots of family time and large family vacations
- Sailboat motifs in decorating 
- extravagant decorating and a focus on keeping a beautiful home 
[b]- not very worldly and U.S focused[/b]
- pride in classic all American life and experience 
- haunts include Charleston, Nantucket and Rhode Island
- family business is finance and sales 
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the two I bolded are interesting- I do not agree about the lean bodies have several in my family are of this "ilk" and while they are not obese they are pleasantly plump :)  two are larger women but both athletic so the long lean is a bit of generalization. Many at my club also are fit but larger sized certainly not thin. In other words many waspy Southern woman are put together but not necessarily thin. I think you find that to be much. more widespread say in affluent Jewish circles where women seem to have a borderline obsession with weight.

The part about all things American and not being worldly is so fascinating to me but right on the money. Its true, they often will not travel abroad the way say,  many Jewish families do. I don't understand it, they are quite happy to stay in the U.S. and many even the super wealthy ones (my own family a good example) have not been to Europe. Yes, guess it has a lot to do with pride of being an American and not feeling the need to leave U.S. soil.[/quote]

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