I wonder what part of Italy Alito's family came from, North or South, as well as what part Scalia's family came from. Alito's father came to the US in 1914 as a child with his family. Apparently immigrants from Southern Italy (including Sicily) were treated worse by "old stock" Americans than Northern Italians were. The grandparents of the "progressive" Democrats of today who will bash Alito for being Italian-American and a Catholic probably considered his grandparents to be undesirables who should be kept out of America.
I seriously don't know many who are RATS. Most are business owners who vote GOP because of distrust in gov't and financial issues.