However, once the Irish took over Boston politics in the late 19th Century, they ruled it as their own petty fiefdom. From the 1880s until the 1950s, the great power struggle in Massachusetts was between the Boston Irish Dem Machine (and their Jewish, French Canadian and Portuguese allies elsewhere in the state) and the Yankee Republicans (and their Italian allies).
Agreed; I was referring the Adams’ era.
If the Irish were Republicans, the Italians would be DemoRats, the most unnoticed race war in Mass.