And Fogarty was writing at precisely the time that the WASP culture of service was dying, when Senator’s sons were avoiding service. GHWB was a Senator’s son and did not take advantage of ways to avoid peril.
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I would have to look up the citation but I remember a German historian showing there was actually more continuity than change after the introduction of exams (in part because exams were geared towards elite schools)
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Can I rudely point out that no one in this conversation is a WASP? Surely some might acknowledge that this sure is a change from how cultural conversations might have gone in the 1930s...
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Yes, and I thought it was a brilliantly productive column, in both agreement and disagreement. But do note: everyone here *is* a man. The old ruling class very much depended on patriarchy even more than it did racism/religious bigotry.
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