Either way, if Trump’s candidacy is a problem, pundits on the right and left have thought of it specifically as a “white trash” problem.
Tom Deignan
Tom Deignan, a columnist for the Irish Voice newspaper, writes regularly for America.
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Surviving in America: Race, assimilation and 19th-century Catholic immigrants
Race, assimilation and 19th-century Catholic immigrants
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What Would George Do?
During a much-discussed speech at The National Defense University earlier this year President Obama cataloged the dreadful conditions at Guant namo Bay and then asked ldquo Is that who we are Is that something that our Founders foresaw rdquo The question was obviously rhetorical though as Lo
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A Naturalist’s Evolution
The most crucial swing vote in the 2012 election may have been cast by the late Rachel Carson.
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Reading the Irish
Whatever else they did, the Irish forced “America to be America.”
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Irish Gothic
Why is Irelands Edna OBrien never discussed as possible Nobel Prize winner?
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Dubliners of a Certain Age
Roddy Doyle’s new stories about aging are not excessively grim or whiny.
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A Doomed Love
John Millington Synge is a troubled lover in Joseph O'Connor's 'Ghost Light'
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Henry’s Final Act
Roddy Doyle’s provocative trilogy raises important questions about the Irish past.