Can you say more about this?

I don't know how to do threads yet, so I'm sorry if that was incompressible or out of order!

These are WASPy manners, really, and people sound a dirge for them, but really they just better concealed bigotry. There were always firebrands, but it was unseemly to broadcast fascist views. I'd argue that the country's intractable social structural did the job without frightening the horses. (2)

I'm not sure I can in this amount of space! But basically, upper-class conservative women's social role is to impart values and behavior to their children in ways that serve patriarchy. They do this via teaching particular manners. Historically, these included qualities like privacy & discretion.(1)