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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by pcwalton on Sunday July 21, 2024 @12:36PM (#41026229)
I'm loath to engage more with this weird anti-Irish prejudice, but I should point out that your blaming the Irish (and Italians apparently?) for FDR is ahistorical. FDR won 42 of 48 states and won the popular vote against Hoover by 17%, about 7 million votes. The total number of Irish immigrants who arrived in the US during that time was like 350k [1]. Needless to say, FDR was also not Catholic.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Americans#Mid-19th_centu...

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by rayiner on Sunday July 21, 2024 @11:44PM (#41030746)
In 1930, the foreign born population was 15% of the population, and Catholics were an (overlapping) 16%. Both groups voted overwhelmingly for FDR (80-90%).

How is it “prejudiced” against Irish or Italians to point out that their voting as a bloc fundamentally changed the country during the 20th century?

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by pcwalton on Monday July 22, 2024 @02:19AM (#41031382)
I had something here to refute your point, but I realized that there's nothing to be gained in trying to combat some bizarre attempt to resurrect the Know-Nothing Party as a shambling zombie on a thread nobody is reading, so I'm done.
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