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I'll have to give you the benefit of better insight FR, as you live over there and can see things that don't be obvious in news reports.
That said, the majority of people I know in the USA have always been more sympathetic to the Irish/Nationalist cause and that's just the way it is. But in Canada where I live now, it's probably more a 50/50 situation where the English speakers like the British vews and the Frenchies like the Irish.