BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com

America is a melting pot.

Successive waves of immigrants crashed up America’s shores and then scattered in different conclaves.

Germans went to cities like Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and St. Louis, the Irish went to Boston, New York, and Chicago, the Scotch-Irish went to Appalachia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, the Italians went to Pittsburgh and Baltimore, the Swedes went to Minnesota, the Dutch went to Michigan and Pennsylvania, Africans were forcibly moved to the deep South.

Later waves went to many of the same cities, but in different neighborhoods. The Jews went to New York, the Poles moved en masse to Chicago, Hispanics flooded Los Angeles, etc.

The melting pot shouldn’t imply a monochromatic broth. Continue reading →