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What's not talked about much is how well the south treated catholics, the Irish, and the italians compared to the north. The Irish and Italians integrated extremely well into southern culture and defended it fiercely. The confederacy also boasted more catholic generals than the union (in number and percentage), with Jefferson himself having a deep affinity for catholicism being raised in a catholic school (and by some accounts being a crypto catholic). Well, this all changed with the Klan which hated catholics, but the confederacy was very amicable towards them. Most of the anti catholic, anti Irish, and anti Italian sentiment was up north and spread south well after the Civil war.

The cultural reasons for this are also complex. Southerners claimed history from the royalists of the english Civil War, and the Yankees as being the puritans. This is both true (the Yankees were most certainly the puritans) but it's also kind of false, it was mostly jacobites much later on (also reactionary catholics from Scotland) that settled the south, the Carolinas in particular, not really the royalists who didnt have a migration pattern, and this was mostly in the appalachian mountains. The last Jacobite highland charge was in north carolina.

There's a lot to southern history that even most southerners are *completely* ignorant about because of the destruction of the culture after reconstruction, and then the destruction of reconstruction-era southern beliefs after FDR. It's quite depressing.

But I even grew up with this difference in attitudes in the early 2000s. My dad's side is german and scottish from the south, protestant, conservative, descended from confederates, but with no ill will towards catholics at all. My mother's side is irish protestant (odd combination I'm aware, not northern Irish either), german, and broadly British from Pennsylvania. Wanted every catholic to die and burn in hell, my great grandmother cheered when JFK was shot because "godless satanic catholic". She kept a picture of fucking cromwell in her house.

Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed