Poles in America

What really surprised me in this chapter is how prominent the Polish immigrants where in America. I have always heard about the Irish or the Jews, but never about the Poles. The Polish groups, the Polish National Alliance (PNA) and Polish Roman Catholic Union (PRCU), were interesting groups. Even though Poland was technically not a country, they fought each other on what Poland should be. Should it be a secular country or under a theocratic rule? They were surely happy when an independent Poland was finally made after WWI. A secular Poland came to be until its destruction during WWII and its rebirth as a communist state.