re: Spinoff thread, Catholic coaches in the SEC

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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.