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The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, or WASP, is a largely American trope that today is used to describe the stereotypical "white" person in American culture. It originally referred to New Englanders, New Yorkers, and Tidewater Southerners from wealthy backgrounds, but eventually came to be applied as well to inland Southerners, Midwesterners, and Westerners of Anglo-Saxon descent as well, regardless of income level. It also came to be roughly synonymous with "Protestant," so that even Protestant Irish and Germans were eventually called WASPs. Examples of White Anglo Saxon Protestant include:

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  • The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, or WASP, is a largely American trope that today is used to describe the stereotypical "white" person in American culture. It originally referred to New Englanders, New Yorkers, and Tidewater Southerners from wealthy backgrounds, but eventually came to be applied as well to inland Southerners, Midwesterners, and Westerners of Anglo-Saxon descent as well, regardless of income level. It also came to be roughly synonymous with "Protestant," so that even Protestant Irish and Germans were eventually called WASPs. Examples of White Anglo Saxon Protestant include:
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  • The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, or WASP, is a largely American trope that today is used to describe the stereotypical "white" person in American culture. It originally referred to New Englanders, New Yorkers, and Tidewater Southerners from wealthy backgrounds, but eventually came to be applied as well to inland Southerners, Midwesterners, and Westerners of Anglo-Saxon descent as well, regardless of income level. It also came to be roughly synonymous with "Protestant," so that even Protestant Irish and Germans were eventually called WASPs. This can easily be conflated with the Boston Brahmin, First Families, Secret Masters of the World stereotype. They (the two stereotypes) share a core characterization, but WASP is a straight-up acronym of a demographic label, a thing you might find in a sociology text, not having any of the Old Money, Secret Masters baggage. Anyway, it's all bollocks. A person can have Anglo-Saxon heritage and be of any race, and even Protestants don't agree on what 'Protestant' means. Strictly speaking, it is hard to generalize about WASPs. Since a majority, albeit a slim majority, of Americans are both white and Protestant, WASP covers a lot of demographic ground. They can be either liberal or conservative politically, and fill any socioeconomic niche. This trope is primarily for figures who meet the most stereotypical WASP criteria: affluent, generic, bland personalities. Examples of White Anglo Saxon Protestant include:
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