"Irish racism in Victorian Britain and 19th century United States included the stereotyping of the Irish as alcoholics, and implications that they monopolised certain (usually low-paying) job markets.[citation needed] They were often called "white Negroes." Throughout Britain and the US, newspaper illustrations and hand drawings depicted a prehistoric "ape-like image" of Irish faces to bolster evolutionary racist claims that the Irish people were an "inferior race" as compared to Anglo-Saxons"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment
Polacks, Kikes, Spics, Dagos, Rednecks, Crackers are all ethnic epithets that are far more prevalent in the North than the South.
That’s true, but they are all white, Christian and Euro so they don’t count..................