No what happened was importing European liberals who vote liberal and have European attitudes and sensitivities and loyalties.
The Catholics vote has Always been liberal, they vote for abortion, big government, liberal causes of all types, Europe did not used to be a place of freedom and conservatism but America did.
Catholics are more pro-abortion than Protestants and they vote accordingly, but it goes much farther than that, as this exposure of Catholic efforts of 100 years to socialize medicine shows.
Catholics move America left, and have since they started arriving in large numbers 160 years ago.
You can see an example of their corrosive liberal effect on America in post 124.
Receiving more Catholics from immigration will only feed our moral decay.
If conservatives care, then we have to unite to fix this Catholic leftist influence.
The Catholic vote has been Democrat, yes, and now it is less Democrat than ever. The trend is good for American Catholics, their votes in late 2000’s notwithstanding. The association of Catholics with working class ethnics, and the association of working class with the Democrats are both things rapidly fading away.
I agree that the Catholic Church needs better leadership.
The point remains that liberalism is a product of the Reformation. America of the Founding Fathers, most Protestant of all nations in late 18c., was also most liberal of all Europe of that time, excluding only the Jacobine France, that only survived for a couple of decades anyway.
The war on Catholicism that some Protestants want to fight has been raging in Europe for over two centuries. The result was secularization of France and later all Europe, two world wars, the Cold War, and hundreds of millions killed by various forms of the murderous secular Left, mostly in Europe. To think that the Catholics gave you the left wing is, forgive my bluntness, ignorant of history.