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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a poor midwestern Irish Catholic I read this whole thread to understand what WASP is and I still don’t understand. There doesn’t seem to be any agreement (other than that I am not a WASP 😁).[/quote]

The Anglo Saxon part is huge. The real WASPs I’ve met are Episcopalian or Presbyterian. They’re from the original 13 colonies with enclaves in California and to a smaller extent Florida, Aspen, etc. They are descended from the original English settlers, the signers of the Constitution, etc. (You know the rich people who started this county—who were often the younger sons of British nobility.) It’s rare to meet a real WASP in the Midwest because the White Protestant people there have too much German and Scandinavian ancestry.

WASPs are polite, cultured and a reserved. The men are usually terrible drunks who even like to break things, but are totally put together and polite if sober. Often, but not always, there’s a cold edge to them. They can be very funny. They love to dress well and are formal. They don’t like tattoos. They tend to be fiscally conservative and socially liberal.

There’s a Preppy Handbook if you’re really interested in learning more, lol. Or you can watch an old Hitchcock movie…[/quote]

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