On Sep 22, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Carl Remick quoted the FT quoting Louis Auchincloss:
> "It is a myth," he continues, that a once great and powerful class of
> white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants has been pushed aside; the ruling class
> has simply eliminated the ethnic and religious bars to entry, and
> expanded. "Proust studied this very carefully," he says. "He
> understood that society would take in anybody it wants."
That's not the way E. Digby Baltzell tells it. Baltzell says the old WASPs were such racists that they refused admittance to the wrong sort and were pushed aside. There's still a ruling class of some sort - it just ain't the WASPs.
Doug