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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (66212)9/25/2015 3:05:49 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) of 86350
 
The Irish are great story tellers, so I'm not surprised that most of them have regaled you with imaginary tales of how their family has lived in America since Colonial times, but this is not factual.

Early immigrant miners were primarily natives of coal mining regions of Ireland. Wales and other parts of the UK containing numerous coal mines. A continuous influx of Irish labor during the nineteenth century ensured the presence of large numbers of Irish miners in most coal producing regions. Some were attracted by labor agents stationed in major ports of entry who often resorted to elaborate and deceptive descriptions of living and working conditions in the mines. Others followed friends and relatives to coal towns and camps.

Irish separatists of the 1800s wore red scarves around their neck, which is why many Americans called this troublesome group "rednecks". Irish coal miners also introduced another term for their clan to Americans "hill billys" which meant clan folk from the hill regions.

The ethnic composition of immigrant coal miners changed dramatically toward the end of the nineteenth century.

As demand for mine labor and demands by Irish miners for better pay and working conditions increased, coal mine operators began actively recruiting miners from Poland and other regions of Eastern Europe to increase their labor pools and to foster linguistic, religious, and cultural divisions intended to complicate the efforts of miners to organize. - immigrationtounitedstates.org

Are these Celtic vermin really American?


A typical Polish-immigrant coal miner in West Virginia in 1938. - en.wikipedia.org

Is this mutant really an American? Better to send his anchor-children back to Poland.
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