Well, except that when they didn't. This issue has always been looked through very partisan glasses, depending on who thinks their ox is being gored. What do you think of this:
Chester Alan Arthur was born October 5, 1829, in Fairfield, Vermont. Arthur's mother, Malvina Stone, was born in Berkshire, Vermont, the daughter of George Washington Stone and Judith Stevens. Her family was primarily of English and Welsh descent, and her grandfather, Uriah Stone, had served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Arthur's father, William Arthur, was born in Dreen, Cullybackey, County Antrim, Ireland to a Presbyterian family of Scots-Irish descent; he graduated from college in Belfast and emigrated to the Province of Lower Canada in 1819 or 1820.
Chester A. Arthur, of course, was the 21st President of the United States.
I was aware of it, and it was controversial.
It's only a miracle we aren't all speaking Irish.