Dude went from a labor leader that the government investigated for mob ties to putting “Old Blue Eyes” behind the “moral majority”

Like man got racial slurs for Italians

They sold out

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How Southern Europeans and Irish weren't even considered white into the 1900s and as soon as they needed to expand that to keep the division going, they all went all in on it

You can track it with Sinatra

How Southern Europeans and Irish weren't even considered white into the 1900s and as soon as they needed to expand that to keep the division going, they all went all in on it

I watched a video about that not a month ago

The history of Columbus Day is so fucking ironic

But the way the Italian-American community pulled the ladder up behind them and now being MAGA-leaning drives me insane

MAGA Chill incoming?

Ruh roh

Which reminds me - I’ve got a hot take that’s potentially Soap-level out of pocket

All those old cleavages have folded into the general culture war

Biden being Catholic wasn’t even an issue, really

Yeah that’s how you really know we’ve crossed a threshold in terms of national religiosity

But they gleefully voted for it...?

But like... most people here are Catholic...?

When Jeff Landry pushed the 10 commandments in schools, he specified the protestant ones

That's one of the things that crack me up about the current political climate

Yeah buddy. Ain't no P's having power 'round here!

More the influence of WASPs having power - which would probably have been more focused on the Catholicism, now that I think about it

Those are the main European backgrounds down here

French, German, Spanish, Irish

Even post-colonial, we ain't got 'em

Oh I wasn’t referring to influence from the colonial period

Which was the chut chut outside of the Louisiana Purchase north of Lake Pontchartrain

Thus why we have the "Florida Parishes."

But the British only had that in Louisiana for a little bit

But on a personal level, I don’t know of where in the family tree it came in, but my sister is 60% British

Nah. Baton Rouge has the Union Jack on its flag because the British controlled West Florida

Idk, maybe it being about half our rate IIRC changes things

But I think y’all are a bit like MN in the sense that we culturally focus on the non-British influences but we underestimate how many were around

Yeah but we ain't got no Anglos 'round here

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You’d think a place called Scotlandville would understand and fight against Anglo fuckery

Anglo?

Well it ain’t like Scots aren’t of the pasty persuasion so I had to get more specific with it

There is this area called the Avenues (because the streets are Avenue A-G) near Southern and it's some Arkham stuff. When I worked at the TV station, some lady's house got shot up in the Avenues on some mistaken identity shit and they threw a grenade in her house. Like what kind of Batman villain shit...

It's the ghetto. Icl