One of America's biggest root problems: Scots-Irish culture

[Drunken Irishman]

89. As pointed out, this is about Scots-Irish. However, what you said was only once true...

It isn't anymore. Irish-Americans were at one point a huge coalition for the Democrats, built out of the early days with the city bosses and solidified during the FDR administration. However, they're far less Democratic today than 50 years ago - with a huge chunk supporting Republican candidates due to race and class issues.

You just have to look at the Catholic vote to see this: Obama won the Catholic vote, but solely because of Hispanics. He actually lost the white Catholic vote 59-40 to Romney. Kerry, a White Catholic, lost it to Bush in 2004 56-43.

http://www.pewforum.org/2012/11/07/how-the-faithful-voted-2012-preliminary-exit-poll-analysis/

It reasons that Irish-Americans, who are white, are not voting overwhelmingly Democratic or it would show in the Catholic numbers (most Catholics are ethnic - either Hispanic, black, Italian, Polish, German or Irish) - though, I believe Irish-Americans vote more favorably Democratic than some other ethnic groups (Italians, Scots-Irish).

Finally, here is a poll from 2012:

A poll asking how Irish Americans plan to vote in Tuesday’s US Presidential election found Obama has a marginal lead of 51 per cent to Romney’s 48 per cent. One per cent of voters said they remain undecided.

http://www.thejournal.ie/irish-american-vote-presidential-election-660332-Nov2012/

Pretty nearly 50/50.