Verrry interesting! Thanks for the background. Papa Joe’s hatred of WASPy Boston Brahmins knew no bounds.
But not all immigrant Catholics were kneejerk Democrats. My coal miner grandfather & soldier father thought Dems were a bunch of crooks out to “tax & tax, spend & spend, elect & elect” their way to power.
Grandpa hated the UMW & John L. Lewis for his limousine & fancy mansion. Got his boiler operator license & left mining forever.
Of course not all, but that has nothing to do with anything.
The majority of Catholics vote democrat, and it is why immigration is such a tool for the left, and why they had to change the laws.
The 1965 Immigration Act ended America, we will never recover from JFK having won in 1960 instead of Eisenhower’s vice president.