[driftless2]

I suspect many Jews became lifelong Jews when they first came to the U.S. back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Dem Party was the party that readily accepted immigrants into its fold while the Republican Party, run by the eastern country club elites in those days, rejected immigrants....especially Jews. Rich, Protestant elites who voted Republican were the ones who kept Jews out of their country clubs and discriminated against them in other areas. Attitudes die hard.

[Netz]

Yes, true and they became hardcore with FDR even though FDR did not lift a finger to help a Jew during WWII. True, he had to conduct a world war and destroy Germany and Japan first but Truman did, FDR did not.

[driftless2]

It should have been Jews became lifelong Dems...not Jews became lifelong Jews. Duh!!!

[stormhill]

Thanks for that explanation.
You can also add to the mix that Republicans were a little too slow on the draw to condemn the Bund movement in America before WWII.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I suspect many Jews became lifelong Jews when they first came to the U.S. back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Dem Party was the party that readily accepted immigrants into its fold while the Republican Party, run by the eastern country club elites in those days, rejected immigrants....especially Jews. Rich, Protestant elites who voted Republican were the ones who kept Jews out of their country clubs and discriminated against them in other areas. Attitudes die hard.

Ironically, groups such as the John Birch Society regard these old northeastern Republican Protestant elites as the "real power" behind Communism.