Ethnicity of U.S. Presidents

[patrick1]

My thoughts are that Andrew Jackson would probably want to shoot you in a duel.  He hated the English and was Scotch Irish.

Whether you want to consider it an ethnicity is another point but at least 10 US President were Scots-Irish.   The Protestants of NI are quite proud of this- you go to a semi touristy area bookstore and this is trumped.  You can visit  the ancestral homelands as well.  drove right by C.A. Arthur's but didn't stop by.

[patrick1]

Regan wasn't real Irish.

Reagan had ancestors from County Tipperary.
I'm just curious if you
1. are resorting to No True Scotsman defense http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
on ideological grounds
2. having a faith based test of Irish ethnicity which I ignorantly subscribed to in my younger days.
3. just being ironical

[patrick1]

Northern Ireland is the real Ireland. Or at least the best part of Ireland.

Ironic that Reagan, a terrible President had ancestry from the best part of Ireland whereas Kennedy whose ancestry is from the Papist part, was a good president.

Tipperary is not in N. Ireland wiseguy