This might not be how it happened, but I have met MANY people in my life who believe it to be true. One of the last times I heard this was when someone told me that Bill Clinton might call himself a Democrat, but when push came to shove, he would revert to his Anglo training as a Rhodes Scholar. I last saw this guy about three weeks after NAFTA passed and all he could say was, "I told you so." "Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"
This might not be how it happened, but I have met MANY people in my life who believe it to be true.
But here in Minnesota, the differences between the Scandinavian / German cultures and the WASP culture has left its manifestations all over the place. In the town where I live, the WASP culture has a college on the east side of town while the Norwegians have their own college and community on the west side. Both colleges are very expensive and have elite reputations but that is where the similarities end for they are VERY different schools.
The WASPS came from New England, got here early, and created their own upper class ownership presence. The Nordics and Germans came later and had to claw their way to prosperity through inventiveness and hard work. The Farmer-Labor Party (who governed during the Depression years) represented in many ways, the immigrant uprising against the WASPS.
The most famous non-Anglo political economist was of course, Thorstein Veblen--the son of Norwegian immigrants in Minnesota.
Of course, the differences have been papered over of late. The University of Minnesota, the place where Alvin Hansen first introduced Keynesianism to USA in the 1920s, is now thoroughly infected with Anglo Disease. "Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"
