[Wallace T.]

America is different from the Commonwealth countries in several respects. The proportion of non-British Isles descendants among white Americans is far higher than in Australia, New Zealand, and Anglophone Canada. Intermarriage between British and non-British descent whites is far more frequent. As I understand it, Australians of Mediterranean and Balkan background are disparaged as "wogs" and lumped with Middle Easterners as less than white. In America, people of Italian, Greek, Croatian, Basque, and similar descent are considered white. We have had a Greek-American Vice President (Spiro Agnew) and two current Supreme Court justices and numerous governors who are of Italian ancestry. Additionally, the Irish Catholics who emigrated to the Commonwealth countries tended to be more loyal to the British Crown, while those who came to America were more anti-British. America absorbed the bulk of the Potato Famine refugees, who were mostly poor tenant farmers. From the time of the 1798 rebellion to the early 20th Century, this country harbored many Irish nationalist refugees. Eamon de Valera, the foremost Irish nationalist, was born in New York to a Spanish father and an Irish mother.

[NZerFromHK]

Thanks for the information. The picture is radically different from here, and I found this from the New Zealand government sites about English, Scottish, and Irish immigrants and their descendants in New Zealand for comparisons:

http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/NewZealandPeoples/HistoryOfImmigration/en

http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/NewZealandPeoples/English/en

http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/NewZealandPeoples/Scots/en

http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/NewZealandPeoples/Irish/en

[Oztrich Boy]

Additionally, the Irish Catholics who emigrated to the Commonwealth countries tended to be more loyal to the British Crown

Oh my aching sides! You do know how Australia's Irish Catholics "emigrated" here?