Working class white protestants

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Archie Bunker's "WASPishness" was very unconvincing. 

^^^

He's clearly an Irish stereotype.

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I would argue that the UP of Michigan and the Iron Range demonstrate that Protestantism isn't the valid category of importance here; the issue is that white working class affinity for the Democratic Party rooted in some semblance of "leftist" sentiment only exists in regions that have a long history of union activism, typically as part of CIO affiliates. Of course, outside of coal country in Kentucky or parts of West Virginia, there aren't many regions that have this kind of history that aren't predominantly Catholic because CIO affiliates tended to be more powerful in "heavier" industries reliant on "low-skill" immigrant labor.

Basically, this issue has nothing to do with Catholicism but rather the fact that communities that developed working class consciousness/culture/identification tended to be Catholic; a similar trend happened with the Swedes, Finns and old stock Americans out West in some logging/mining communities.