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re: Spinoff thread, Catholic coaches in the SEC
Posted on 5/31/15 at 6:03 pm to MaroonNation
Posted on 5/31/15 at 6:03 pm to MaroonNation
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The fact you have traced the lineage of your coach is spooky. Most of Europe is overwhelmingly Catholic. The new world exists mostly because people wanted to chose the way they worship hence people breaking away from Catholicism. Saban being born in West Virginia, on the East Coast, has much more to do with him being Catholic than being Croatian does.
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Posted on 5/31/15 at 6:10 pm to EmperorGout
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I'm not sure what you're laughing at, but my problem with the post is that it's doesn't actually ring true. A significant percentage of early settlers moved here to escape religious persecution. After that, though, groups tended to be escaping political or economic problems. There's a reason why the Irish and Italians are overwhelmingly Catholic, and why Jews tend to practice Judaism (or nothing, depending) and people of north Eurasian descent tend to be Russian/Eastern Orthodox and upper Midwestern Scandinavians tend to be heavily old-school Protestant (Lutheran, Wesleyan, etc.) I honestly have no idea about Croatians -- I can't think of a single person I've met who claimed Croatian descent, though I've known a few Serbians -- but there's no reason to think they aren't typical of later waves of immigrants in this sense.
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