WASP is a class distinction I have made up for the creative nonfiction, The WASP and El Curandero, whereby W.A.S.P. equals White Anglo Saxon Protestant, equals those McAllen WASP women-including Hispanic women-who 1) have Sunday brunch at the Country Club after church; 2) buy their clothes at Sylvia’s; 3) wear elegant manners to the Museum’s galas; 4) are in the Junior League; 5) have children attending St. John’s Episcopal Day School; and 6) drive white suburbans.
That’s just my perspective. In my particular case, you can add blonde hair and blue eyes, at least my hair was blonde in the year 2000, the time frame of the novel. I want you to notice my WASP reflects those women who were instituted at the top of what the anthropologist, Emile Durkheim, calls social organization (aka they had climbed the social ladder to the top).
Katherine Brittain 
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