such as Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Newport, Rhode Island. One such group of interconnected elite families is the Boston Brahmins. Many in the East Coast establishment have ties to Ivy League colleges and to prep schools in New England and the Northeast. In the Southern United States, the First Families of Virginia are an example of the Establishment. Traditionally, WASP and Protestant establishment families have been associated with Episcopal (or Anglican), Presbyterian, United Methodist, Congregationalist, and other mainline Protestant denominations. According to the Pew Research Center, the Episcopal Church "has often been seen as the religious institution most closely associated with the American establishment, producing many of the nation's most important leaders in politics and business." Inside the American Sociological Association, the term is often used by those protesting a small clique that controls the organisation. In 1968, a group of academics formed the "Sociology Liberation Movement" (SLM) in order to repudiate the leadership of the American Sociological Association itself, which the SLM referred to as the "Establishment in American sociology". See also Anti-establishment Cabal Cronyism Deep State Drain the swamp Established church Iron law of oligarchy Liberal elite New World Order Power to the people Ruling party The Man References Further reading Campbell, Fergus. The Irish Establishment 1879–1914 (2009) Dogan, Mattéi, Elite configurations at the apex of power (2003) Hennessy, Peter. The great and the good: an inquiry into the British establishment (Policy Studies Institute, 1986) Jones, Owen. The Establishment – and how they get away with it (Penguin, 2015) Kauppi, N. and Madsen, M.R., eds. Transnational Power Elites: The New Professionals of Governance, Law and Security (Routledge, 2013). online Page, E.C. People Who Run Europe (1997). Rovere, Richard. The American establishment and other reports, opinions, and speculations (1962), a famous spoof; it is online Silk, Leonard Solomon and Mark Silk. American Establishment (1980) Valentine, C. The British Establishment, 1760-1784: An Eighteenth-Century Biographical Dictionary (University of Oklahoma Press, 1970) Wodak, Ruth. "The “Establishment”, the “Élites”, and the “People”." Journal of Language and Politics 16.4 (2017): 551-565. online Sociolinguistics Social groups Political terminology Oligarchy Politics of the United Kingdom Politics of the United States Military science