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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weird of OP to start a thread asking about “your WASP ancestors”. [b]Very few people are from WASP lineage nowadays…[/b]

Anyhow, a lot of these things people are talking is just about people dealing with poverty. We are much wealthier than our ancestors. We don’t need to live like England during the air raids[/quote]

??? Huge swaths of the Southeastern US are nothing but WASPS. Even in the NE/Midwest there are plenty but you mix in more Irish/Italian Catholics. [/quote]
No. White Southerners don’t count as WASP. They tend to be Southern Baptist Protestants and tend to be of Scots-Irish stock. 
The true WASPS are from the Northeast, historically [/quote]

Plenty of white southerners are Anglo Saxon, with ancestors from England descended from the three Germanic peoples the Anglos, The Saxons, and the Jutes. There are also tons of southerners who are not southern Baptist.

Geez. It sounds like you have never been to "the south" and know nothing about it so you are just promoting stereotypes. My WASPY grandparents would be horrified if you assumed they were Scottish, Irish, or - heaven forbid - BAPTIST. [/quote]

And not to mention the scotch-Irish are called Ulster Scots in the UK, many of which who came to early colonial southern U.S. were second sons of aristocracy and were the beginning of what is “WASP” now.  Ulster Scots were mostly Englishmen/Lowland Scots of Protestant landed gentry origin who participated in the highland clearances and the plantation of Ulster.

You can draw a straight geneological line from many/most “WASPy” families in the north and south to an unbroken chain of transfers of wealth/property that go back to at least then English civil wars, if not William the conqueror.  The 3 epicenters of waspy-ness heritage are Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York (with New York developing this later).  The Carolinas are on the bubble.  Typically these families are of long lines of Episcopalians or Methodists (technically methodist episcopal).  But Presbyterians aren’t uncommon, depending on where their ancestors fell on the questions of the English civil war and some may even be Baptist, though Baptists tended to be much more plentiful in lower class early immigrants, but many higher class British intermarried with higher class Baptists of lowland Europe and Rhineland Germany origins.[/quote]

How do you know all this?  Genuinely curious.  Did your family pass along this information or did you learn it by researching?  Both?  Or do you simply have an interest due to your family history.  Thank you for sharing.[/quote]

They made it up. DP. [/quote]

They didn’t make it up, PP. Did you graduate from high school in a state that requires a basic US history class and proficiency exam to graduate? If so, you would have learned all this but without the neat summary that PP provided.[/quote]

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