My loathing for Sen. Kennedy cannot be expressed.
As far as me painting people with a broad brush it goes without saying that it couldn't possibly include everyone in that group.
Being from an Irish background I have lived all my life around politics. I doubt very much that the Irish in NY are a different breed than the Irish in Boston.
As far as the Freeper who told me that there were a lot of republicans in the queens section I looked up the results of the senate and congressional elections and the dems whalloped the repubs by more than two to one in all but 2 out of 14 seats.
NY like Mass. are socialist states. Face up to it.
NY just got mugged so there is a possibility of a change of heart. -Tom
I know that one shouldn't argue with a Captain but being (1) of 100% Irish descent and (2) from Queens (summers in Rockaway, no less) I assure you that my parents and most of their Irish-American friends and relatives stopped voting for Democrats (nationally; some of the locals were okay) in the 1940s-1950s.
The Brooklyn Tablet (official Catholic paper covering Brooklyn and Queens) was then so anti-communist that it had ads for bronze busts of Joe McCarthy. The editor of that paper (a Rockaway neighbor of my family) was a Roosevelt-hater as were the people who read The Tablet or the daily anti-communist anti-Roosevelt and anti-Democrat papers like the old Journal-American and (yes) the New York Daily News. (The NY Post was then left-wing.)
Most of my relatives and friends were Irish-Americans but do you know how old I was when I met my first IRA-supporting Irish-American? Twenty-nine! (He was from the Bronx which is socially more like Boston than Queens.)
I don't understand the Boston Irish but I am pleased that my ancestors settled in NYC and not in Kennedy-land. You have my sympathy.