[Verginius Rufus]

Polish-Americans are mostly descendants of people who immigrated before the 1921 quota law was adopted. FDR at Yalta was trying to get better borders for Poland and a promise of free elections from Stalin because he was worried about the Polish vote in the next US election (of course he failed on both counts--Stalin wouldn't budge on the border, and did not keep his promise about free elections).

So Polish-Americans don't have personal experience of Communism--but I assume a lot of them were in touch with relatives in the old country and therefore were very anti-Communist. Of course from Truman to LBJ the Democrats at least pretended to be anti-Communist.

[1010RD]

All my Polish friends had family trapped in communist controlled Poland. Many of them emigrated here from communist Poland. That that experience didn’t permanently turn them against modern progressivism manifest for nearly a century in Democratic Party politics is proof that people never learn.

Perhaps as new emigrants to America they felt the pressure to fit in and in urban areas fell in with powerful, local Democrats. Yet, after decades of being kicked to the curb in exchange for their votes they still stay on the plantation. Why?