Why do people celebrate St. Patrick's Day in the U.S.A.?

Many Roman Catholics have immigrated to the US over the years, and most likely they brought the holiday with them, and it just grew in popularity till it became a general US holiday, just as Christmas did, which was also originally a Roman Catholic holiday.

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