White Anglo-Saxon Protestant , WASP (abbreviation)

She's a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant who keeps her emotions in check.

It includes his view that the authority of the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant establishment is over and will probably never be seen again.

"Our biggest balancing act now is that we don't want a city that's all white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

I am a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant who browses in such sections regularly.

What exactly is a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant?

You don't always have to find a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant whose ancestors served in the Revolution to do the job.

"I'm certainly not a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, and I'm running the place," he says.

Most of the writers are good-natured folks who imagined me a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant until something put them wise that I am black.

I am a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (a minority, by the way), but I have never dis-criminated against anyone in my life.

Both writers share a preoccupation with the lives of a small, privileged portion of the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant American middle class.

"As in White Anglo-Saxon Protestant?"

The most common meaning of WASP is White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

John Lindsay was hardly the type: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant Republican with an unnerving streak of unpredictability.

As a heterosexual, conservative, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant Republican, I am academia's minority of a minority.

The stories are about White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) families.

Debi Greenberg, the vice president of the store, said the Wasp was a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant man, but not blue-eyed with blond hair.

They are America's newest WASP's, arrived at a time when white Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance is over.

He's this nice white Anglo-Saxon Protestant and I'm this fiery Italian Catholic New Yorker.

It remained mostly White Anglo-Saxon Protestant in character for over two hundred years, during which the South Medford Baptist church and other institutions were founded.

And even in white Anglo-Saxon Protestant America, wherever we went we were just about the only white Protestants, and atheists to boot."

This is a mildly derogatory term describing people of "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" background, but can be applied to all Protestants of Western European descent.

Mayor Curley's administration's "policies all but ignored the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) and Yankee business community."

Cheryl Lambert Dear Diary: My friend, a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and has many Jewish friends, me among them.

To the south is "Whiskey Point", long a working-class Irish American neighborhood that contrasted with the wealthier, mostly White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Pill Hill.

He became an eminent professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and was credited with popularizing the acronym WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant).