Roosevelt and the Puritans

i didn't elaborate on this, but i could also have noted that it is interesting that despite being a "WASP blue blood" (and from a republican family, though is father was a dem.), roosevelt was from the old new york elite (delano = huguenot) , which often was at odds with the yankees who flooded into eastern long island and basically overran upstate new york outside of the hudson valley. these "old new yorkers" were often democrats of yore, who opposed new england cultural imperialism which rode in on the backs of their demographic expansion. martin van buren was a dutch new yorker democrat, who opposed the new england derived reformists who were the core of the anti-masonic faction in state politics. and yet he was ideologically flexible enough to be a
"free soiler" during part of his political career.

p.s. from what i have read b. h. obama is yankee stock on his mother's side. and hawaii was heavily influenced by yankee missionaries.

Most of the Progressives v. Big Business battles of a century ago were fought out among Northern WASPs. For example, the Eliots were in business until the 1820s when, having made their pile, they shifted to being progressive preachers, professors, and poets (although T.S. was a rare conservative Eliot).