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==Fading dominance==

==Fading dominance==

It was not until after World War II that the networks of privilege and power in the old Protestant establishment began to lose significance. Many reasons have been attributed to the WASP decline and books have been written detailing it. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7DB153EF934A25752C0A967958260] Among the reasons often cited is increased competitive pressure as the WASPs themselves opened the doors to competition.  The GI Bill brought higher education to the children of other groups , and the postwar era created ample economic opportunity for a growing new middle class. Nevertheless, white Protestants remain represented in the country's cultural, political, and economic élite.<ref>Davidson, James D.; Pyle, Ralph E.; Reyes, David V.: "Persistence and Change in the Protestant Establishment, 1930-1992," ''Social Forces'', Vol. 74, No. 1. (September., 1995), p. 164</ref>

It was not until after World War II that the networks of privilege and power in the old Protestant establishment began to lose significance. Many reasons have been attributed to the WASP decline and books have been written detailing it. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7DB153EF934A25752C0A967958260] Among the reasons often cited is increased competitive pressure as the WASPs themselves opened the doors to competition.  The GI Bill brought higher education to the children of other groups, and the postwar era created ample economic opportunity for a growing new middle class. Nevertheless, white Protestants remain represented in the country's cultural, political, and economic élite.<ref>Davidson, James D.; Pyle, Ralph E.; Reyes, David V.: "Persistence and Change in the Protestant Establishment, 1930-1992," ''Social Forces'', Vol. 74, No. 1. (September., 1995), p. 164</ref>

In the federal service, once dominated by WASPs—especially the State Department—Catholics and Jews made strong inroads after 1945. Georgetown University, a Catholic school, made a systematic effort to place graduates in diplomatic career tracks, while Princeton University (a WASP bastion), got into trouble with donors because too few of its graduates were entering careers in the federal government.<ref>The princeton debate was not about ethnicity per se. see the attack at [http://www.robertsonvprinceton.org/factsheet/background.php] and Princeton's defense at [http://www.princeton.edu/robertson/about/mission/]</ref> By 2000 there were roughly equal proportions of WASPs and Jews at the elite levels of the federal civil service.<ref>Kaufman (2004) p 220</ref>

In the federal service, once dominated by WASPs—especially the State Department—Catholics and Jews made strong inroads after 1945. Georgetown University, a Catholic school, made a systematic effort to place graduates in diplomatic career tracks, while Princeton University (a WASP bastion), got into trouble with donors because too few of its graduates were entering careers in the federal government.<ref>The princeton debate was not about ethnicity per se. see the attack at [http://www.robertsonvprinceton.org/factsheet/background.php] and Princeton's defense at [http://www.princeton.edu/robertson/about/mission/]</ref> By 2000 there were roughly equal proportions of WASPs and Jews at the elite levels of the federal civil service.<ref>Kaufman (2004) p 220</ref>