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In the United States, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants or Wealthy Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP) is a sociological term which is often used to describe white Protestant Americans of British descent (sometimes more broadly of Northwestern European descent), who are generally part of the white dominant culture or upper-class and historically often ...
Old Stock American (also known as Pioneer Stock, Founding Stock or Colonial Stock) is a colloquial name for Americans who are descended from the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies. Historically, Old Stock Americans have been mainly Protestants from Northwestern Europe whose ancestors emigrated to British America in the 17th and 18th ...
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant; References This page was last edited on 14 November 2024, at 09:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
English Americans (historically known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.In the 2020 United States census, English Americans were the largest group in the United States with 46.5 million Americans self-identifying as having some English origins (many combined with another heritage) representing (19.8%) of the White American population.
(US) A rural white person, esp. one from Appalachia or the Ozarks. Redneck (US) A rural white person. There are varying possible etymologies for this term. Primarily used to denote lower-class rural whites. Swamp Yankee (US) Refers to rural white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant farmers in New England, particularly in Rhode Island and eastern ...
They were almost exclusively white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs), [3] and most belonged to the Episcopal church and Quakerism. [4] Families.
Most of them were of English descent, with smaller numbers of those of Scottish, Irish or Scots-Irish, and Welsh ancestry. A minority were of high social status and can be classified as White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP). Many of the prewar WASP elite were Loyalists who left the new nation. [57]
Inclusion in the Social Register has historically been limited to members of "polite society", members of the American upper class and The Establishment, and/or those of "old money" or White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) families, within the Social Register cities.