Wow, that sure sounds like a wild thing to experience.

(For what it's worth I've always thought the 'Anglo Saxon Protestant' part of WASP went together -- I don't think Protestantism itself is necessarily seen as privilege, as there are plenty of poor and working class Protestants, esp in the South? WASP is more of a specific type of affluent white person who's not Jewish or Catholic or otherwise 'ethnic.' I can't imagine how this would have come up in Yuletide chat though!)