Talk:List of Irish-American communities

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What do you mean Irish-American community?? How do you categorize a town as Irish-American? - signed by an anon IP

To have the distinction, it needs a majority of residents to claim Irish ethnic background in percentage or population number. Massachusetts does have the status of having the most Irish Americans per state, except New York City has the most Irish-Americans in population for an U.S. major city, and the westward movement of Irish into the Midwest (i.e. Chicago) and the Western states (i.e. San Francisco) has established more Irish-American communities in the late 19th century between the Rockies and the Pacific.

I do know the Imperial Valley, California has many of Irish Mexican ancestry, most likely descendants of deserted Irish-American and comrad Irish-Mexican soldiers during the Mexican-American War in the 1840s band together to protest anti-Catholic sentiment among Protestant American comrads, and exiled U.S. Civil War Confederate soldiers, many of Irish descent fled the Confederate Fort Yuma, Arizona into nearby Mexico despite lack of battle action. + 71.102.53.48 (talk) 07:37, 7 May 2008 (UTC)