[Hermann the Cherusker]

You're dreaming!

The Irish are one of the three reliable legs holding up the Rat party - the other being the Blacks and the Jews.

The Italians have become Republican, the Germans, the Yugoslavs. But not the Irish. They still vote 2 to 1 Rat.

If anything, I think my mother's prophecy will come to pass. Americans' will eventually accept in Hispanics as white and get back to their age old business of keeping the blacks down and out.

[nopardons]

You're mother is a racist, if you are quoting her correctly. Americans don't " keep blacks down and out "; except for the Liberals. No wonder you sound so bigotted; the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree, I see. :-)

You are incorrect about the Irish and their voting habits. Perhasps it's due to your experience in Mass. ? Even THAT seems to be changing though. Mit Rommney just got elected Governor, dear. Do try to keep up with the times.

[vbmoneyspender]

I take it you haven't followed politics for 40 years. The Irish-Catholic vote formed a principal part of the voting bloc that put Reagan in office. You ever heard of the term 'Reagan Democrat' -- that term applied principally to ethnic Catholics such as the Irish.

As far as Irish-Catholics supporting Democrats 2 to 1, you are just wrong. Clinton took the Irish-Catholic vote by 16 points in 1996 and Bush narrowly lost the Irish-Catholic vote in 2000. See link. In 2004, look for Bush to take the Irish-Catholic vote outright, as Catholics in general, and Irish-Catholics in particular become more and more Republican in their voting patters.