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August 19, 2012

CS Monitor: US government and politics no longer run by WASPs. Does it matter?

by Brad Knickerbocker
The Christian Science Monitor

No matter how it turns out, the 2012 presidential election will have made history.

For the first time since the founding of the Republic, none of the major party candidates for president or vice president is a WASP a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant a fact that was confirmed when Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan to be his running mate.

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