[AdrianR]

Bolton has Serbian father and Slovenian mother, according to Wikipedia.

[E Rocc]

Bolton has Serbian father and Slovenian mother, according to Wikipedia.

You meant Voinovich, right? That's his ancestry.

Professionally, he was a Slovenian coming up in politics. He had to be in the Cleveland area. The local Serbian community is small, and the local Slovenian and Croatian communities are said to be the largest in the world outside the former Yugoslavia. Running as a Serb would have cost him among the Croatians, who occasionally name their sports teams "Ustashe", largely to annoy the Serbs.

Plus, the local Serbs never signed on to the 1970s and 80s era "Captive Nations" movement, while the Croats were affiliated.

-Eric