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andym

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11. Anti-immigration bias has been a long standing component of America, historically.

Reply to qwlauren35 (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2022, 02:04 PM

May 2022

Now it has generalized to white people, earlier it was more focused on particular others including white people, by whom the English descendants of the founders of the US felt threatened. The anti-Irish immigration movement of the 1850s stand out as an ugly example.

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Replacement Theory May Lead to Civil War [View all] qwlauren35 May 2022 OP

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