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There is no difference at all between being Czech and Bohemian. The Czech Republic includes two provinces, Bohemia and Moravia. Bohemians are a subset of Czechs.

In fact, Kerry should not be considered a Czech OR a "Bohunk"! For one, his hometown was in Moravia, so he was not Bohemian. Secondly, his family lived in a German-speaking part of the province and identified as Germans. If they'd been Catholic to begin with and not converts, and stayed in the country, they would have been deported from Germany under the Benes decrees after WWII and settled in West Germany along with the other Sudetenlanders.

Kerry has acknowledged this by always identifying as half Austrian, not half Czech. His family hometown is in the Czech Republic, but it bears no resemblance to the town his family knew 120 years ago. The history of Central Europe is fascinating.