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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Ethnonationalists also ruled this country in the 1910s and 1920s… Wilson… segregated the federal government. Confederate statues were erected. “The Birth of a Nation”… was all the rage. The 1924 Immigration Act imposed racial quotas to defend the Anglo-Saxon character of the country.
Americans like to think of our country as one of the oldest democracies in the world. But we only truly became a liberal democracy in the 1960s, in the living memory of many Americans."