On 2/3/2011 2:26 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
> And Napoleon a Corsican, Hitler born in Austria, great chauvinisms coming
> from the periphery...
Yup. Just like how the craziest West Bank settlers are always from Brooklyn and L.A. And the biggest American flag-waving jingoists are always new-stock ethnics. You rarely see a Yankee Episcopalian in an American flag T-shirt yelling about a mosque.
From a study of anticommunism in Massachusetts in the 1930's: “Descendants of Irish immigrants championed the values of Yankee forefathers while descendants of Revolutionary patriots peddled foreign, disloyal doctrines. This was repeated at all levels of the Church as well as by Catholic laymen.”
SA