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To: Tax-chick

Your slightly cryptic post intrigued me so I clicked a few times and found this interesting story.

https://www.city-journal.org/html/how-dagger-john-saved-new-york%E2%80%99s-irish-11934.html

Part of the way through the article quotes George T. Strong (as an example of anti-Irish bigotry) and refers to him as “former mayor.” I must have missed that part of his career.


53 posted on 07/24/2017 5:42:12 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Wikipedia does not mention Strong’s being mayor. Perhaps the City Journal’s writer got him mixed up with someone else.

Although George T. is quite negative about the Irish, I would say he had an “anti-Irish attitude,” rather than “bigotry” or “prejudice.” Many of the Irish pouring into New York at the time were at quite a low level of sanitation, culture, and education. They also had a high crime rate, as poor, immigrant, uneducated, young men often do. His views, therefore, while not kind, were based on experience.


54 posted on 07/24/2017 6:01:25 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Everybody loves to talk about 'values' because there is no math involved.")
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