Imagine thinking that John F. Kennedy wasn't white enough to be president.
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Papist I think was the more derogatory slur at the time
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We are not hellbound!
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was the "lace curtain district" reference meant to be a dig at his Irishness in general, or to undermine his Irishness among the poorer Irish?
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his dad was mostly a stock speculator
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Who was the WASP columnist?
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Are you going to discus how, because JFK was Catholic, he took orders directly from the Pope? Catholics would take over the country & Protestants would be persecuted because reasons. This was a hot topic at the Lutheran Church I attended.
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that was the first time I became familiar with the term… had to look it up
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The intolerance faced by JFK in 1960 is largely forgotten today. But it was real, and severe.
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