Least Irish U.S. States

Many Irish in the northeast (like my great-grandfather) worked in the mines around Pennsylvania and beyond. Montana had a copper mining boom which pulled people across. Butte actually has/had the largest Irish population as a percentage of any city in the US.

Volcanoes: the only redheads in Hawaii, apparently.

Savannah has one of the biggest St. Patrick's Day celebrations anywhere in the world. I've been, it's a lot of fun.

Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day.

Damn, the existence of Beto O’Rourke had me not guess Texas. Should’ve still gone for it.

Is anti-Irish animus still a thing in the US?

There is a strong anti-Catholic strain in certain areas, which of course is not anti-Irish per se, but there's an awful lot of overlap.

Basically someone got offended over something they shouldn’t have and another person asked what would happen if there were quizzes like this about other nationalities.

oh ok

hm...my comments are still getting deleted. Now I know what brand of humor is too far gone for this site. Never would have guessed that it would be this.

QM, I used to live in a deeply Baptist area where it was quite common for people to ridicule the religious beliefs of Catholics for being different than theirs. Granted, it was mostly amongst the teenagers, but they probably picked up a few of their talking points from some of the adults.

I remember hearing anti-Catholic comments when Kennedy was running for president. I'm guessing some of the anti-Irish sentiment grew from anti-Catholicism. The KKK was also anti-Catholic and anti-Jew along with anti-African American.

I recall when I was in elementary school seeing Pollack jokes in some old joke books. But... they seemed outdated even then to my 6 year old self. I don't recall ever encountering anti-Irish bias except in historical period films or in what were obvious parodies of outdated racist attitudes. Sometimes you'll see a stand-up comedian joke about the Irish being drunks, or pale, or prone to fighting or something like this, but again, if you understand how these jokes work the primary butt of the joke is not the Irish, but rather the ignorant attitudes of those that the comedian is mimicking. This sort of nuance is very difficult for some SJWs to wrap their head around but it's almost inconceivable that the comics meant it any other way.

Yes, they were a bit odd. I think the commenter assumed that this quiz was an advert for the states in question or something.

I wouldn't have thought TX, and there's Irish in Mexico too!

What if you have a small percentage but still have a traditional Irish surname?

I got 100% by pure guesses

I have a lot of Irish ancestry, but I have never seen a demographic survey that asks about that in California.