Posted on 03/10/2012 3:43:48 PM PST by jocon307
I don’t know that I can really fault you for that—given that I was voting reliably Democrat when I was young.
But I’m curious: what was your thinking in going for the Irish name? Did you simply feel you were members of the same team somehow? Assume that they had some desirable traits or characteristics? Make any assumptions about how they would in turn vote or govern?
“Did you simply feel you were members of the same team somehow?”
Yes, that’s pretty much it. Don’t forget, I’m old enough now and I was young enough then to “remember” that anti-Irish prejudice was not that long ago a real thing, so maybe there was a little concept of “affirmative action”.
I certainly didn’t think they’d be pro-life or anything like that, this was NYC after all!
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