1% sounds about right, that's the number that still identify as Greek. But since the immigration pipelines began sending Greek miners to the Western USA in the 1890s followed by another wave in the postwar until the junta in the 1970s, the Greek-American population is perhaps very lacking in feeling and knowledge about the politics of the home country. The people are generally conservative, and for every Paul Tsongas or Michael Dukakis or John Sarbanes, we wreak havoc on America with Spiro Agnew, George Tenet, John Negroponte and Jamie Dimon. Their power is close to zero in terms of throwing around muscle. Most Greek-Americans are probably patting themselves on the back for working hard and making decent money, unlike their backward loafing relatives back in Greece. Moral superiority, after all, that's why I made it rich and they didn't! Even a liberal like Tina Fey took time out during a "Saturday Night Live" news session to excoriate her ethnic kin in Greek for a minute on national TV. "Ntrepome!" or "I'm ashamed of you."