Why do Americans celebrate St Paddy's Day in the US, when hardly any Americans have Irish blood?

[Anonymous]

If I'm not mistaken, Americans are fully English and they are direct descendants of those Pilgrims. And they remain English to this day, no?

Miller, Johnson, Smith, Robinson, Walker and Hall don't sound much like Irish names, do they?

I think St George's Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 would be a more suitable holiday for them, but that's just me.

Anyway, I live in the UK, so what do I know?

[DryGermanGuy]

Is this a silly joke or something? There were millions of Irish emigrating to the U. S.!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_immigration_statistics

Quote:

Emigration from Ireland in the 19th century contributed to the populations of England, the United States, Canada and Australia, in all of which a large Irish diaspora lives. As of 2006, 4.3 million Canadians, or 14% of the population, were of Irish descent, while around one-third of the Australian population had an element of Irish descent. As of 2013, there were 40 million Irish-Americans and 33 million Americans who claimed Irish ancestry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland#Migration

[docster]

America is quite a melting pot of many nations. My small town is mostly of German descent, including myself. The phone book is full of names like Schumacher, Huellinghoff, Homeyer, and Niederholtmeyer.

[laly520]

u can't look at it from that perspective

US is so mixed n it has people from all over the world

[Asker]

The problem is we that don't really study US history in our schools, beyond the Pilgrims showing up.

[Asker]

*that we

[laly520]

yes but there is no stopping to learn on our own yk
internet is free

[electromagnetic]

Because they need a reason to freely drink without being judged.

[jamesgoldman]

Plenty of Irish in the states especially on the eastern seaboard

You have the potato famine to thank for most of that

[NamerOfStars]

How to spam the same question over and over again, despite being repeatedly told that more Americans have Irish than English ancestry.

[BarryLiverstone]

Citizens of the USA coke from many parts of the world. Can’t focus on just one culture or country

[parlance]

31.5 million residents in the US claim to be of Irish descent. There are only 5 million people in Ireland. America is more Irish than Ireland.

[Anonymous]

There is a lot of Irish people in these united States perhaps more than English, as a soo large a share of the Irish population which also had a higher birth rate came.

[KrakenAttackin]

You are not correct. There are plenty of Americans with Irish blood. Having said that St Patrick's Day is really just a day for people to stay drinking at 8:00AM and get blotto.

[jahaims]

We are a culture of immigrants and around 30 million of the 330 Americans population have Irish blood.

[Anonymous]

Are you sure about that? The Irish used to be treated very similarly to blacks back in the day. People just don't like to talk about it because they are white and are therefore today's oppressors who don't deserve a history month.

[gorydetails]

Apparently you know nothing.