I wonder if you surveyed Americans whose ancestors come from there if you'd get more who identify as Austrian or as Hungarian. I've never met anyone who said they were Austro-Hungarian. Was that ever strong national identity?
As Gustav Mahler famously said "I am condemned to homelessness thrice over: as a Bohemian among Austrians, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world."
Kind of strange to see how big the Irish population actually was. I kind of assume everything I hear is biased/Ireland-centric, but being the top source of immigrants for several decades is pretty crazy
With the hysterical reaction you might expect. In addition to the cartoons depicting them as subhumans, other cartoons from the 1840s portrayed them as whiskey bottles (and the Germans as beer barrels) who were corrupting American democracy. We even had a political party, the Know-Nothings, born out of nativist opposition to immigration.
I wonder if you surveyed Americans whose ancestors come from there if you'd get more who identify as Austrian or as Hungarian. I've never met anyone who said they were Austro-Hungarian. Was that ever strong national identity?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924