I have mixed feelings on all that.
Joe Kennedy was part of the political rise of the Irish-Americans, who displaced the New England Puritans/Boston Brahmin types as the dominant force in New England.
I
much prefer the NY and NE Irish over the Boston Brahmins/New England Puritans. It's not even close. I've known plenty of the former, and a handful of the latter. Some of the Irish are counted among my long-term friends and very close friends. On the other hand, it's painful to just be around many of the old-line Yankee Puritan types.
You and I may vary in background, I don't know. But for my background (and I'll use "us" and "we" here referring to me, not everyone on these boards), it was those ******** who opposed us all the way back to the English Civil War, they nearly obstructed our founding of These United States with our Constitution which was written by us (Virginians Madison and Jefferson especially), they instigated the Civil War which could have been resolved amicably without the bloodiest war our country has ever fought (See Paul Carrington of Duke U's articles), century-after-century they have foisted their narrow-minded, dogmatic, unrealistically idealistic, and usually wrong, views on us.
And they absolutely, positively, f@cking HATE Texas with every fiber in their being.
So f**k OFF TO NEW ENGLAND PURITANS/BRAHMINS and three cheers to the New England (and other) Irish-Americans!!!
...
...
...
...
and P.S., the Virginia colony was up-and-going long before those
newcomers sailed over on their stupid-assed Mayflower.
and double P.S., their proud institution, Harvard U., SUCKS.
Click to expand...