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I'm loath to engage more with this weird anti-Irish prejudice, but I should point out that your blaming the Irish (and Italians apparently?) for FDR is ahistori
by pcwalton 2y ago
I'm loath to engage more with this weird anti-Irish prejudice, but I should point out that your blaming the Irish (and Italians apparently?) for FDR is ahistorical. FDR won 42 of 48 states and won the popular vote against Hoover by 17%, about 7 million votes. The total number of Irish immigrants who arrived in the US during that time was like 350k [1]. Needless to say, FDR was also not Catholic.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Americans#Mid-19th_century_and_later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Americans#Mid-19th_centu...