Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index WASP is an acronym standing for "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant", generally considered to have been coined by E. Digby Baltzell as a convenient shorthand in his 1964 book The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy & Caste in America. (An E. B. Palmore is also credited with defining it in a 1962 journal article.) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.