Reply #41: Actually, the original neo cons were "white ethnics"

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People often mis-state the origins of neo-con movement as being "Jewish" New York intellectuals. Actually a better description would be New York "white ethnics" -- and in NY at the time the majority were Jewish.

But several were Irish Catholics: Daniel Monihan and Jeane Kirkpatrick. Others were eastern Europeans, like Zbigniew Bryzinski. It was really a reaction of previously liberal white ethnics against the later phases of the civil rights movement, urban decay perceived to be the fault of African Americans, and the disorders of the 1960s.