In the United States, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant is a sociological term used to describe white, upper class, Protestant Americans, usually of English descent, who are generally part of the white dom
The old and prominent Trinity Church in Manhattan facing the moneyed center of Wall Street has been seen as embodying the prominence of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture in the United States.
Harvard College was primarily white and Protestant into the 20th century.
Washington National Cathedral, the Episcopal cathedral in Washington, D.C.
Beacon Hill, Boston: a preeminent Boston Brahmin neighborhood.
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The Boston Brahmins or New England Brahmin are members of Boston's historic upper class. From the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, they were often associated with a cultivated New Engla
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
…they maintained their dominance until the late twentieth century at the earliest. Numbers of the most wealthy and affluent American families, such as Boston Brahmin, First Families of Virginia, Old Philadelphians, Tidewater, and Lowcountry gentry or old money, were WASPs. Commitment to the ideals of the Enlightenment…
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., who coined the phrase "Boston Brahmin" in a January 1860 article he wrote for The Atlantic Monthly
The typical dress of the Boston elite, c. 1816–1817
Samuel Adams, American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and Founding Father of the United States