Scots/Scotch/Irish

Sun Dec 7 19:51:59 UTC 2008

Isn't this because the other big immigrant group that the Slovenes in Cleveland would have been in closest competition with historically are the Croats?

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Incidentally in the Cleveland area the group that was designated to carry the "cheap" stereotype (besides, of course, the Jews) are the Slovenians, for some inexplicable reason. ...

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