 In addition, numerous Irish-Catholic Americans were pro-Nazi because they were openly hostile to the British and British interests.However, the American South was very pro-British at this time, because of the kinship southerners felt for the British.The South was deemed "a total failure" for the non-interventionist America First Committee for reasons such as traditional southern pride in the military, pro-British sentiment and Anglophilia due to a predominance of British ancestry among most Southerners, political loyalty to the Democratic Party and the role of defense spending in aiding the region's depressed economy.