I'm writing a short story set in my Afrikaner TL in which one Irish Catholic spymaster repeatedly refers to Italians as "dagos" and thinks they're all corrupt, even though this makes one of his subordinates (also an Irish Catholic, albeit significantly younger) rather uncomfortable.
My theory is that due to the first wave of mass Irish immigration coming to the Thirteen Colonies before independence (as a result of Cromwell's depredations), the Irish would be accepted into the American politic much earlier than OTL and would join the WASPs in sneering at the newer waves of immigrants (the Italians, Poles, Jews, Greeks, etc--to make things even more fun, possibly even the Irish who fled the Famine, possibly due to their hatred of Britain).
Thus we've got the prejudiced Irishman in intelligence establishment (which in OTL was dominated by WASPs) who shares their snobbery.
Does that seem realistic to you? If so, what do you all think would be the likely results of a much earlier "acceptance" of the Irish in the USA?
My theory is that due to the first wave of mass Irish immigration coming to the Thirteen Colonies before independence (as a result of Cromwell's depredations), the Irish would be accepted into the American politic much earlier than OTL and would join the WASPs in sneering at the newer waves of immigrants (the Italians, Poles, Jews, Greeks, etc--to make things even more fun, possibly even the Irish who fled the Famine, possibly due to their hatred of Britain).
Thus we've got the prejudiced Irishman in intelligence establishment (which in OTL was dominated by WASPs) who shares their snobbery.
Does that seem realistic to you? If so, what do you all think would be the likely results of a much earlier "acceptance" of the Irish in the USA?