It's pretty much the same throughout the northeast. The film Far and Away provides some insight into the world of Irish immigrants to the US. This "relationship" between immigrants and government has been passed down from one generation to another. They have failed to adjust their thinking to conform to church teaching.
I try to read as much as I can about the early Democrats in the 18 hundreds and 19 hundreds. It seems to be more of the same no matter what the city—one corrupt Democrat machine after another. These are the roots of the modern Democrat party and those roots go deep into the muck.
The Democrats fed into the fuedal thinking of most people of Europe. They had been in a fuedal system for many centuries in which a fuedal lord would rule over the people and provide security. This is a top down system in which people were not free to live where they wanted to and could not own their own property. These were perfect subjects for the Democrat party as in—just vote for anything with a “D” after its name and we will provide security for you. It is really disturbing to see how they kept this medieval behavior going on even to the present day.