Despite the misconceptions the main Irish group was the Ulster Scots and also the Ulster English who settled all over the US including NY.
The difference was they assimilated into the society they moved to and created very few problems.
The smaller less educated Irish group clung together and tried to create their own ghettos and then where integrated into American society eventually
Yeah the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Brotherhood, banjo playing kid from Deliverance, Appalachian inbreds and good ol' racist bubbas from the South contributed more to American society than the Irish who built the damn country.
Get out of here you buffoon.
The Northeast doesn't equal the entire USA. The Irish were important in the formation of the USA we currently know, but on the other hand so were a myriad of other ancestries (and for the record, the English and Scotch-Irish didn't solely settle in the South).
I'm not an American citizen, so I probably should keep stumm on this topic. But there's no need to call someone names, especially if your own historical knowledge seems to be filled with bias.
