Lot of folks in the Midlands think the Sheheens are Irish.
You want clannish? Try the Tokunagas of Columbia.
I’ve met Harpootlian. Humorless Democrat apparatchik.
Irish? Funny. I spent 11 year or so in the “midlands” - Columbia, Camden, back to Columbia. Actually worked with the SC lib elites in a polling PR firm for a couple of years during that time - with one of the Sheheens, Harpootlian, Tim Rogers - learned a lot about the lib mind during those few years.