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I just finished reading a bio of Hugo Black, first a Senator from Alabama, then a Justice on the Supreme Court for 30+ years.
Back in the 1920's in Alabama, if you aspired to be a state legislator, Governor, Congressman or Senator it was all but mandatory to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan, which, a surprise to me, was very anti-Catholic.
In the book, there was a case where a Methodist Minister murdered a Catholic Priest, for marrying his daughter to a Puerto Rican. Hugo defended him, because he was a friend, and he was acquitted, no charges filed. Being an ex-Catholic myself, I found it shocking to read!
Everybody loved Jack Kennedy. President Kennedy was Catholic and everybody loved him. I pick that as the time people stopped hating Catholics in America. Women loved him. Men loved him. Everybody.
Everybody loved Jack Kennedy. President Kennedy was Catholic and everybody loved him. I pick that as the time people stopped hating Catholics in America. Women loved him. Men loved him. Everybody.
Catholic prejudice still existed and was strong in areas like the South and Northeast at the time JFK was elected. It was considered a heavy checkmark against him, since he might "answer" to a foreign leader: the Pope.
His election over this hurdle is probably what ended general prejudice, although any area with the KKK taint or its successors often still includes the church as an enemy.
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Everybody loved Jack Kennedy. President Kennedy was Catholic and everybody loved him. I pick that as the time people stopped hating Catholics in America. Women loved him. Men loved him. Everybody.
I agree, in fact I remember my parents talking about voting for him because he was Catholic, and even at age 11 then I thought that was an odd qualification for a president. It seems to have gone back the other way lately, though, with all of the priests accused of abuse.
KKK membership extended through a lot of the US. Indiana had a large membership.The KKK had a kind of triad of hate and prejudice. First and foremost were the blacks and as stated Catholics but also Jews. I grew up in Central Ohio in the 50’s. Many older people back then although not card carrying KKK members shared this hate groups beliefs.
KKK membership extended through a lot of the US. Indiana had a large membership.The KKK had a kind of triad of hate and prejudice. First and foremost were the blacks and as stated Catholics but also Jews. I grew up in Central Ohio in the 50’s. Many older people back then although not card carrying KKK members shared this hate groups beliefs.
Much of Maine was KKK-all-the-way. Since there were few Blacks and probably no more Jews, the fury was often directed from the largely English/Protestant coastal population against the largely French/Catholic interior population.
My mother-in-law, born in the 1930s, remembers KKK activity in her interior mill town.
It stopped? When? Not a week without pouring some dirt onto Catholic church.
That's different. They molested people and covered it up for generations. Calling them on their crimes is called justice. But irrational prejudice against Catholics is a different phenom. If it's died out, it may be because the last generation to be part of it has passed.
Another poster may have a point in implying, that Kennedy's popularity helped change attitudes, but staunch Republicans didn't love him. "Everyone" did not love Kennedy. But he was popular. Possibly more so in death, than in the Presidency.
It stopped? When? Not a week without pouring some dirt onto Catholic church.
As already answered, but... there's a difference between anger at the church for its self-serving policies, and having a neighborhood covenant that prevents Cat'licks from buying a house there.
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