> He talks a lot about some of the
>anti-immigration policies that had sprung up
>directed at certain groups, and
>discrimination in America. He makes a lot of
>challenging points-he says that Irish
>Americans of today would quite possibly
>react the same way to the group that
>immigrated over as Americans of that day
>did.

But again I don't get it. What was so different
about the Irish immigrants that made them so
much more detestable to established citizens
than say, Russian immigrants, or Germans,
or Dutch?

>America adjusted to the people who joined it,
>and the people and their culture changed as
>well. "No Irish need apply" is a blanket
>statement that doesn't describe any whole
>group...

You've lost me again. You're saying that "Irish"
didn't mean Irish, it meant "immigrants?" Do
you mean that it wasn't the Irish in particular
that were prejudiced against, but all
immigrants, the majority of whom just
happened to be Irish?

>...but there was a difference between the
>people who immigrated, and the people they
>became a part of.

Huh?

Gri"confusion strikes deep in the
heartland"shny