Ask Axios: What's a "Boston Brahmin?"

• The term describes the area's historic elite English families who came to dominate the culture and economics of Massachusetts from the 18th to 20th Centuries.

Think old-money families like the Adamses, Cabots and Lowells.

• They mostly lived around Beacon Hill and the Back Bay, and usually had strong ties to Harvard and other exclusive private schools.
• The phrase is a play on the top class in the Hindu caste system.

The answer, by the way, was "wasps," for White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, another term used to describe the old upper class.