and the most unreasonable of the lot in highly religious union households.......
Irish Catholic perhaps or Italian Catholic?
I hesitated to bring that up, but, yes, the most unreasonable and unreasoning seem to be Catholic, although I don't see any particular ethnic pattern, and of course Jewish. We're treading on dangerous ground here, but I'll tell you I will NEVER understand why Republicans don't get 90% of the Jewish vote. They're like cows voting to subsidize meat packers.