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That would have been the 12th of never. Most of the "anti Catholic/anti-"Papist" hysteria in the US stemmed from groups of recently arrived immigrants (mainly N. European) who had such a chip on their shoulder when they arrived on the eastern shores. "Gangs of New York" by Martin Scorcese, though horrifically violent and foulmouthed (and fictionalized in some passages) provides a fair insight of this, vis-a-vis the split between "Prods" and Catholics from Ireland.
Strongly anti-Catholic sentiment in the US did exist, but it really never originated from, nor took firm root in, the mainstream of our society.
A.A.C.
Thanks. We had a little of that in Oz, twixt the Protestant English gentry and the predominantly catholic Irish felons...but we don't have Hollywood, so I guess we forgot!
Still, it won seats and electoral votes...using the same rhetoric you're using.
Fact is, when it came down to it, many "Catholics" didn't just blindly follow the Pope against the US. I daresay many Muslims will not blindly commit mass-murder, too. Some might say they are not True MuslimsTM, so then why harass them as if they are?