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It's worth remembering that before the 20th century, the US had more or less completely open borders. And we turned out OK, didn't we?
by panic 9y ago
It's worth remembering that before the 20th century, the US had more or less completely open borders. And we turned out OK, didn't we?
- pixl97 9y ago>And we turned out OK, didn't we? I'm going to have to ask if this was a monumental failure of thinking on your part? First there are some theories that huge numbers of native Americans died from disease leaving the US a very large empty land mass. Second, the native Americans that were left got a real bad deal from European immigration. Third, the US depended heavily on slave labor in the south, something that has left a terrible 170 legacy of racism on our country (so much so our crime demographics look nothing like western Europe's. Lastly, because the US was a large and empty land mass for one reason or another, it look a long time to 'fill it up'. Attempting to make any future assumptions based on past assumptions that are very different from now is not going to work out well at all.
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