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Originally Posted by Docere
In Canada, the Conservative Party just picked a military veteran who ran an "angry man" campaign railing against "cancel culture", CBC bias, cracking down on Indigenous protesters etc. named Erin O'Toole to be their national leader.. I don't think I've encountered an American male "Erin" - do men have names like Erin in Irish American communities"? There were actually two male Erins in the last Parliament.
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There's a certain stereotype about a type of Irish American conservative personality who becomes more conservative after having "made it in America" over the generations, for instance, thinking of themselves as an "assimilated" American that's had the immigrant/ethnic "minority" in the past, and now this experience is behind them.
Is this stereotype stronger or weaker among those who are more culturally "Irish" vs. assimilated? The Canadian political example seems to suggest that many Irish can be conservative without being fully "assimilated", for instance keeping Irish names etc.
For instance, there were still undocumented/illegal Irish immigrants up to a generation ago in NYC (don't know what the numbers are)?
Do stereotypically conservative native-born Irish Americans who are less sympathetic to illegal/undocumented immigrants feel different about the new Irish immigrants? Do these groups still feel diaspora connections/diasporic political ties with each other and the old country?