Polish American Vote

[King of Kensington]

Was just thinking about this.  Polish American voters very likely played a key role in swinging Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to Trump.

[King of Kensington]

I take it Chicago area Polish Americans voted for Trump but their votes were diluted by minorities and (mostly non-Polish) professional class whites.

[King of Kensington]

Amazing that nobody has mentioned the fact yet that a large number of Polish Americans are actually of Central-European Jewish background (I believe SInNYC might have indirectly alluded to that in his post upthread).

It would be a "Whitewashing" of Polish-American history to simply focus on Catholic Polish populations, with the obvious caveat as many other posters mentioned of historic patterns of inter-marriage between individuals from various country of origins over three major waves of Polish immigration to the United States.

Many Jews have ancestors who came from Poland but they do not identify as Polish or with the Polish American community.

[King of Kensington]

I assume the third and fourth generation Polish Americans have long departed from Chicago proper and they're pretty much assimilated in far flung suburbia for the most part.  Looking at the Polish neighborhoods in Chicago, they seem to be mostly made up of more recent immigrants from the 80s/90s (given the high numbers born in Poland and speaking Polish).