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And the… non-WASPs knew their place. They loved it too in fact!
(I’m paraphrasing some actual things that actual people have actually said about the good old days (but I can’t remember their actual euphemisms (dysphemisms) for non-WASPs))
The ones I grew up around called them heathens.
It never occurred to me that I should be grateful to have heard “heathen” used only by history professors and sarcasts.