spineless pinko's update

[Carl Remick]

>Later there would be shift back to Episcopalians among the WASP elite, as 
>among the Quakers in Philadelphia. This is all covered well by Digby 
>Baltzell in his book on the WASP elite in the US. Barkley Rosser

Baltzell had some finer distinctions to make, as I recall.  He argued that 
the Puritan heritage of Boston WASPs inclined them toward social 
responsibility and reformist activity (as well as, negatively, meddlesome 
censoriousness), while the Quaker influence in Philadelphia led WASPs there 
toward solipsistic indifference re society in general (as well as, 
positively, live-and-let-live tolerance).

Carl
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