no this was the home grown bunch - luckily they emigrated to USA, much of current US attitudes have been traced to too much Puritan and too little Catholic influence ! (said with tongue firmly in cheek!)
I was however making a serious point that the figurative use of 'Isle of Man' is not that unknown.
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