I wonder what Joe Lieberman thinks.
I wonder what Al Sharpton will say.
I wonder what Rat voters will do.
Heheheh.
Actually, this isn't that unusual. My mother's parents came from Eastern Europe at that time, and with the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Tsarist Russia, there were a lot of dislocated people. My maternal grandparents came here on a boat that left Germany and was filled with people of various ethnic and religious groups. When they settled in New Jersey, they separated into various churches. Apparently, some, through associations on the ship, ended up in different church groups when they got here. For me, it's my maternal grandfather whose original religion is a question mark.
All of this is further complicated by the fact that the records of these ancestors are in cyrillic. When they said their names, it was up to those registering them to assign english letters to the spoken names.
Massachusetts has quite a few residents of Eastern European ancestry and they look like any other old Yankee resident. It isn't at all unusual for it to be assumed that those of Eastern European ancestry are old Yankee or Irish.
He's probably gonna find close relatives who were Black, Hispanic, Oriental, Middle European, and South Pacific Islander as the 2004 election approaches.
This ranks right up there with Hillary's Jewish step-grandfather.