WASP male domination, though, is over. Obama has opened the Presidency to many others who have surnames that don't look like those that one sees in a listing of Colonial-era Americans... and to women.
You mean like how Eisenhower paved the way for numerous presidents with German last names? 
German- and Dutch-Americans might as well be WASPs (if Protestant, of course). I know of German ancestry for Hoover, FDR (ironic, huh!), Truman, Eisenhower (of course!), LBJ, Nixon, and Obama. It could be slight but it was there.
We have never had a
1. female
2. Hispanic-American
3. Italian-American
4. Polish-American
5. Asian-American, or
6. Jewish
person as President. Obama may have opened the Presidency to persons with all sorts of seemingly-odd names (odd if one lives in the rural South). We barely got an Irish-American President (JFK).
I wish people wouldn't mention "female" in the same breath. There's been females in every White House.
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