[Arcadian Empire]

Apologize for the bigotry against those of us of Irish heritage.

[Clemenza]

If you all haven’t talked tongue in cheek about another ethnic group (Jews, Mexicans, Blacks, Chinese, Dutch or whoever) please raise your hand. Just pointing out drolly that the Dutch descendants did indeed flee when the Irish came, much of it due to the social problems caused by a large group of poor uneducated people flooding into their city. Some things never change.

For the record, let it be stated that the Anglos in general were much more accepting of my Polish and Italian ancestors when they came here than the Germans and Irish were - they needed them to work in their mills for the cheap labor after all (the whole thing about Italian Americans intermarrying with the Irish was a post-World War II phenomenon).

Overtime people lose their ethnicity through intermarriage with other ethnic groups. And once they become whitewashed, er, American they often look askance at newcomers. And the band played on…