[RobbyS]

The WASPs saw the Irish as the underclass. In the South, the house servants were black. In the North, Irish.

[PapaBear3625]

The WASPs saw the Irish as the underclass. In the South, the house servants were black. In the North, Irish.

That was then. I'm talking about now. The Irish immigrants who came over in the 1800's and early 1900's may have been largely uneducated peasants, but within one or two generations they dragged themselves into the middle class.

[PapaBear3625]

The WASPs saw the Irish as the underclass. In the South, the house servants were black. In the North, Irish.

For the Northern WASPs, blacks were below underclass. Prior to 1910 89% of all blacks still lived in the South. Northern towns didn't have many blacks living there until WW2, when many went to work in the factories up north. Until then, blacks weren't encouraged to move north.