Speaker. when Abraham Lincoln formed the Republican Party. one of the groups that he had to deal with in putting his coalition together was the nativist movement in this country called the "Know Nothing Party." They hated two groups: The Irish. who spoke Gaelic and were Catholic. and the Germans. who spoke German and were Catholic. That root has been in the Republican Party from the very start. It is what drove millions of immigrants into the Democratic Party. All the southern Europeans who came to this country became Democrats because they knew the Republicans did not want them. And now we are after the Asians and the Hispanics.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing about Irish and Germans based on language and religion.