> Nobody is seeking to deny any of that, only to point out that in the
> inter-war period there was another ethnic conflict, one that shook the
> entire political organisation of the country, leading to the
> reconstitution of the Democratic Party as a party of the urban masses
> and the transformation of the ruling racial ideology.
I wonder about your timing here. My impression is that the DP had roots in the urban masses, such as they were, well before the turn of the century. The Republicans were the party of big Eastern capital and gave the Irish, for one group, a reason to join a different party. There were also of course the urban draft riots in the North in the Civil War period.
MBS