All That Is Old Is New Again 0
PoliticalProf summarizes the history America’s bigotry against immigrants.
A nugget:
- The Puritans hated Quakers and other non-Puritans when such people started coming to America. In time, however, they all became “WASPs”—White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Or what some people call “Americans.” (Not Politicalprof.)
- WASPs hated Catholics when they — mainly Irish — started in immigrate in large numbers in the 1840s. (Think potato famine.) WASPs started the Know Nothing Party to stop Catholic immigration into America. Now, of course, lots of our presidents have some Irish heritage … including, as it happens, Barack Obama. (And me, were I to become President!)
Hate keeps re-inventing itself in most marvelous ways.
