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white Anglo-Saxon Protestant

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Noun1.white Anglo-Saxon Protestant - a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination
Caucasian, White, White person - a member of the Caucasoid race
Protestant - an adherent of Protestantism


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It seems to spell the end of the hegemony of the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and America's coming of age.
For the first time, the minorities had succeeded in electing a president against the wishes of the white Anglo-Saxon protestant majority.
Brian Proffer, University of Michigan-Flint This presentation deals with representations of the family in television programs beginning in the 1950s when the family was represented as a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) in numerous "family" programs such as Father Knows Best and Leave it to Beaver.
 
 
 
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