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Entry: Puritans or Habsburgs Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/puritans_or_habsburgs#1266 Post contents: The issue over the term "WASP" is a distracting sidebar to the essence of Dr. Gottfried's post. When I read it, and I am a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, I immediately understood that he was primarily referring to the elite of New England and to those represented in their demographic and ideological expansion across New York and northern Pennsylvania and finally into the upper Ohio Valley. Washington Irving's term for WASP was Ichabod Crane, that priggish, pedantic Connecticut Yankee who had come as an alien into the fun-loving domain of the Hudson Valley Dutch. In my understanding, these are the ideological WASP's, this Puritan utopianism which brought us the War Between the States and WWI along with a host of other interventions. The first real melding of the Yankee WASP's with their European counterparts came just before and during the War Between the States, when German nationalists and Marxists, the former frustrated that the King of Prussia would not take the national crown from them as if it was theirs to offer and the latter equally frustrated because they were unable to overthrow the existing order, came to the United States and rendered service to Lincoln, with Marx becoming his European arm of propaganda and with the nationalist ascending into the top ranks of the Union Army, making up 1 in 4 Union soldiers by war's end and by being graciously rewarded with land taken through genocide from the Plains Indians in the for of the Homestead Act. These WASP's have also been reenforced by the modern neocons: the Trotskyites thourgh the ideological lineage of Irving Kristol and the Straussians whose ideological father was not Strauss himself but none other than Martin Heidegger, that oft apologized for Nazi ideologue and hater of the Habsburgs, not unlike his Führer, whom, I would assert made the Jews in the Holocaust his scapegoat for that which he really hated - the Family Habsburg and the liberalism and federalism which their late 19th and early 20th century rule embodied. Sent at: 2008 05 16