[MarkBsnr]

Somehow...the Baptists didn't end up the slaves of labor unions. Were they naturally or genetically "smarter"? I'd say that is highly doubtful. But there must be something of what they were taught in their own religious traditions which has led them to more strenuosly object to the machinations of the radical left (who have long been leveraging pro labor union sentiments).

A lot of Baptists were killed during colonial and post colonial days, but most of them were driven out - it was the NE Catholics and the Quakers that took the brunt of Republican Reformist anger. The Baptists went South and established plantations (along with the firm establishment of the slave trade in the US). Where were the Irish to go?

It wasn't the Irish who rejected the Republican Party. It was the Republican Party who rejected the immigrant Catholics of the late 1800s. It takes generations to erase that sort of rejection. For example, look at the Serbs and the Croats - brothers, really, but bitter enemies.

[BlueDragon]

You make it sound like only Republicans (the party of Lincoln) had anti-Irish prejudices. White Southerners for a long time...voted Democrat.

So I'm sorry sir, but that particular sort of short-hand historical portrayal which you seem to be bringing here as accurate, is too much over-simplification and blend of misidentification (leaving Republicans holding the bag) that is part & parcel of the impossibly screwed-up worldview of today's American liberals, which they both promote and further distort.