#he's no american calvanist puritan!!

[izloveshorses]

Also am I the only one who looked at Dmitry and DIDN'T go 'oh he sleeps around'? Because I seem to be!!!

[bucksboobs]

The historical Xenophobia against the Irish and Italian peoples in the United States stemmed from almost exclusively sectarianism, specifically anti-Catholic sentiment that singled out the Pope and the prospect of high-ranking papists as a threat to American sovereignty. With the exception of Maryland, the Thirteen Colonies were all founded by Protestants for Protestants, some were Puritans (MA, CT, RI), others Quakers (PA, DE) Calvanists, (NY, NJ) or Anglicans (VA, NC, SC, GA, NH), but nevertheless, all were Protestants. Oh and Maryland, though nominally a Catholic colony, was populated by mostly Protestant commoners and a couple Catholic nobles. There was a time when anti-Catholic sentiment had its own party, which called itself the American party and once boasted former President Millard Fillmore on their ticket in 1856 on their ticket (he came in 3rd, making him the Johnson/Perot/Nader of 1856) and when the KKK was originally founded, it hated Catholics as well as PoC. Remember that news story were Donald Trump's dad was arrested in the 20s for being part of a mob attacking cops? Those cops were Catholic. Really the whole Protestant/Catholic divide didn't end until the 1970s when the Evangelical Protestants joined the Catholics in their anti-abortion efforts, and even growing up in the South today I noticed there was this pervasive microaggresion where a Protestant will refer to "Christians and Catholics" rather than simply "Christians" So if anyone tells you that anti-Irish or anti-Italianism was the Irish/Italians being considered non-white, please smack them upside the head with the King James Version of the Holy Bible and direct them to the Wikipedia page on the Thirty Years War.