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Entry: Firing Foxman Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/firing_foxman#3472 Post contents: There may be some truth to Cantrell's argument that the Kennedys picked up the worst habits of the New England Brahmins. But what about all the other Irish? I don't recall the the New England WASPs creating Tammany Hall. They weren't the ones who wrecked the old New England townhall democracy wherever they went. Today the Irish of the north continue to romanticize Ellis Island and spit at those awful working class WASPs who had the nerve to resent their towns being invaded and wages being threatened. In short the Irish in the North did not completely assimilate. In the South they did because they were thin on the ground, but up north they conquered parts of the country through sheer force of numbers. They have an identity of their own that is distinct from that of the northern WASPs. Sent at: 2008 05 15