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Where do most Polish-Americans identify on the political spectrum? [142]
Used to be (at least since FDR's time) a straight Democratic ticket (ballot) for the majority of PolAms. The Democrats were widely perceived as the party of the working man and ethnic minority, whilst Republicans were viewed as represented the upper, corporate classses.
That all started to change in the late '60s when Mc Govern was the Democratic presidential candidate. That was when every manner of leftist radical, draft-dodger, celebrity type, deviant sexual minority, hippy, libertine, religion-basher, anti-family type, ACLU activist, etc. began making an increasingly visible imprint on the Jackass Party.
In the last presidential election Afro-Americans, Hispanics and Jews remained overwhelmingly pro-Democrat desptie the party's leftist-libertine transformation, but European-rooted ethnic communities were now divided between the two parties, and PolAms probably more often that not voted Republican.
The pro-Kaczyński vote in Ameirca is not surprising, since he was perceived as representing the time-honoured values of God, country and family rather than untested fly-by-night social experimentation.
Going back to the 1995 presidential race, Chicagoland émigrés voted not for Wałęsa but for rightist Jan Olszewski, in New York Wałęsa was favoured and in Washington, DC Kwaśniewski won the most votes. That might suggest that Polish diplomacy and their families were still under the ex-communist infuence.
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