Sunday, March 17, 2024

Poor Irish immigrants

But not always, apparently. Tyler Anbinder got ahold of bank records, which included quite a bit of info about the people who held the accounts. "four in 10 day laborers could end up in white-collar jobs"

2 comments:

Assistant Village Idiot said...

Man, you can get into an ugly argument about that up around Boston. Because some people were undeniably treated badly, the descendants of others who weren't still feel resentful.

james said...

I wonder if it is harder to give up "somebody else's grievances" that you've assumed than to give up your own. Maybe if it costs you something significant...