"Whenever someone shows you a chart about Catholics, with no filtering, you’re usually better off cutting out the middleman and just looking up a chart about Hispanics and Scots-Irish instead."
You're not actually better off if you do this, because the Scots-Irish, when they have a religious affiliation, are generally Protestants. It's a long story, but they're descended from people who England sent over to Ulster in the early 1600s to try and basically colonize Ireland.
Huh. I was under the impression that Irish people counted in Scots-Irish, but the venerable authorities at Wikipedia tell me I was *totally* wrong about that.
I suspect you're still better off going straight to a chart of Hispanics and Scots-Irish, since charts of "Catholics" are dominated by racial effects over the religious effects the chart is nominally looking for, and Scotch Irish are *racially* pretty close to the Irish (culturally? maybe? dunno). But you're right that I meant something else here, and you'd be *best* off looking at a chart of what Irish-Americans think, rather than Scots-Irish Americans.
"Whenever someone shows you a chart about Catholics, with no filtering, you’re usually better off cutting out the middleman and just looking up a chart about Hispanics and Scots-Irish instead."
You're not actually better off if you do this, because the Scots-Irish, when they have a religious affiliation, are generally Protestants. It's a long story, but they're descended from people who England sent over to Ulster in the early 1600s to try and basically colonize Ireland.
Huh. I was under the impression that Irish people counted in Scots-Irish, but the venerable authorities at Wikipedia tell me I was *totally* wrong about that.
I suspect you're still better off going straight to a chart of Hispanics and Scots-Irish, since charts of "Catholics" are dominated by racial effects over the religious effects the chart is nominally looking for, and Scotch Irish are *racially* pretty close to the Irish (culturally? maybe? dunno). But you're right that I meant something else here, and you'd be *best* off looking at a chart of what Irish-Americans think, rather than Scots-Irish Americans.