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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think &quot;old money&quot; neighborhoods exist anymore.

I did grow up in a neighborhood that was classified as &quot;old money&quot; even back then but times were also different. It was an age of the Wasp hegemony. Social registers, private clubs, &quot;coming out&quot; debutantes, everyone had gone to the same handful of colleges and schools. My childhood neighborhood is still just as affluent as it ever was but it's no longer the Wasp bastion it once was. There are still Waspy families but there are now many other people too. There's no neat replica today of those kinds of neighborhoods you found in every American city up through the 1970s. [/quote]

This.  Plus there isn't the level of discrimination that existed years ago.  Previously Jews couldn't even move into these neighborhoods.  Now you just need to be able to afford the house. [/quote]

Jews couldn't move into SOME of these neighborhoods. This is America, being Jewish &lt;&gt; being black. If you are from these communities you know there are plenty of old money Jews.[/quote]

And if you are old money you know how Jews were discriminated against.  Just not as overtly as discrimination against blacks.  [/quote]

It was about more than just being 'less overt'. Jews were free to do many things blacks weren't. Of course, identity-based treatment of people has been an issue since the dawn of time and still causes problems today. Just know that not everything was off limits to Jews.

-a poster with ancestors of both WASP and Jewish extraction who were rich in Antebellum America.[/quote]

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