As Michael Glazier, ed. ''The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America,'' (1999), “Irish Americans are residents or citizens of the United States who claim Irish ancestry. Thirty-four million Americans--or roughly 15% of all Americans--report Irish ancestry, more than any other ancestry but German. The term Scotch- Irish (or Scots-Irish) is usually used to designate descendants of immigrants from Ulster whose ancestors originally came from Scotland. Some Scotch-Irish also consider themselves Irish-American. Because of sectarianism or discrimination between Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics, most Protestant immigrants came to be known as Scotch-Irish, with Catholics preferring the term Irish-American. This distinction is not as rigid as it once was, and many Scotch-Irish consider themselves a sub-set of the broader Irish-American group”.
Also according to Michael Glazier, ed. ''The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America,'' (1999). Many protestant Irish settlers moved to America......

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Title: Ethnic Groups And Discrimination
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