He was born into a wealthy Roman Catholic family when even wealthy Catholics were snubbed by the Protestant elite.

An article in The New Yorker decades later called the book the "best-wrought fictional monument to the nation's Protestant elite that we know of."

Upscale Punda, "the point," was once the city's commercial center and home to the island's Dutch Protestant elite.

Increasing numbers of young people have been admitted to institutions that were, just 40 years ago, bastions of wealthy, privileged, Protestant white male elites.

Particularly in the Northeastern states, its values and ideals had been predominantly forged by a Protestant elite that continued to have powerful ties to European culture.

English Canada in 1960 was still dominated by a staunchly Protestant elite, most obvious in the power the Orange Orders held in society.

John Seabrook is a New Yorker writer, a hip-hop fan and a child of the Protestant elite.

By the late 18th century, many of the Irish Protestant elite had come to see Ireland as their native country.

To redress this imbalance, New York's Protestant elite founded the Young Women's Christian Association in 1871.

Another rich son come to sniff around the daughters of the ruling class and (ultimately) propagate the Protestant elite.