Shef Rogers
2008-05-07 19:27:27
You are JUST PLAIN WRONG in claiming that the 19th-c. Irish immigrant wave was loyal and safe. Mainstream Protestant America was terrified of these Papist immigrants whose loyalty was to Rome, not their country. Behind this fear was a guilty conscience, born of the artificial famine that killed at least one million Irish peasants and sent two million more into exile. The only reason you see their wave of immigration as loyal and safe is that you lack historical knowledge. They were much more violent, disaffected and anarchic than today’s Hispanic immigrants–and now they’re just another subset of white American. So calm the Heck down.
