He died in 2001 but, like his contemporary John F. Kennedy, he came from a wealthy liberal Irish Catholic family from the Northeast.
Yeah, but he still votes communist!
The irony is that Archy was supposed to be this WASO character, but as O’Connor played him, he has flat out Irish. Further irony: Irish Catholics are probably more racist than most Georgians, because they were working class and had to compete with blacks for all kinds of work. Given it to thr Irish, though: they hated all other ethnic groups as well. In their bigotry, they were egalitarian. Let an Italian priest come into their parish, and the women wouldn’t go to confession when he was in the box.