OK, use another person's words "bleeding heart Catholics" as the Irish in the perception of JFK. Obviously I exclude the pro-military, pro-Catholic, pro-conservative, pro-bible-belt Republican cradle (TX, OK, LA, MISS, etc.) just a choice of words, you get my meaning I'm sure.
Nope - if you are going to posit something as a premise to an argument, you need to make it extremely clear or the posit becomes meaningless and takes the rest of the argument down with it. You had some interesting thoughts, though.