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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2012-11-07 09:44 am

Question for the Americans

When Irish-Americans go off on rants about the evils of demographic change do you think they are in any way aware that a century ago people making that speech would have been complaining about the Irish?

[identity profile] sahdwholurks.livejournal.com 2012-11-07 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
One of our neighbors is Irish (as in 'We moved from Belfast to Dublin'), who married an American and moved to Illinois. Someone asked her if she ever thought about moving back to Ireland and her response was 'No, there's too many foreigners there.'

Why, yes, they do have a Romney sign on their lawn, how did you guess?