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so in 1870 and 1871 on July 12 (the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne) there were riots between Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants in New York City, they got so bad that the National Guard was called in, what POD could make such fights between these two groups in American cities fairly normal, for a long time?