White America's Greatest Delusion: "They Do Not Know It and They Do Not Want to Know It."

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8. Thanks for the link. I will read it later.

I see it specifically mentions Irish Catholics. I wonder about the Protestants.

My family never discussed our heritage, I had only one grandmother and one aunt besides my parents growing up. Most of what I know has been from tracking the information down myself.

All my family was in Wisconsin since the 1850s when it was pretty much wilderness. They cut trees and built cabins and farmed. I think they were not involved in either the union movement nor had much contact with African Americans, though some of them did fight in the Civil War for the Union.

And one of my mother's family was an O'Connell from the region where Daniel O'Connell was from. In seventh grade she showed me the family tree she had made when she was a child, so learning about Daniel O'Connell was my first exposure to oppression. (It was a special treat when I took her to Ireland and walked down O'Connell Street with her, getting her photo at the statue of O'Connell, then seeing the bullet holes in the wall of the Post Office building still there from the Revolution.)