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Wasn't it also much more homogeneous before the waves of German, Irish, Chinese and Italian waves of emigration much earlier than 1965?
by bantunes 6y ago
Wasn't it also much more homogeneous before the waves of German, Irish, Chinese and Italian waves of emigration much earlier than 1965?
- rossdavidh 6y agoWhile I would not at all wish to return to ethnic homogeneity (to the extent that ever existed), there was a very real downturn in immigration into the U.S. from FDR until LBJ. FDR was quite opposed to allowing immigration in, perhaps at least in part due to the very high unemployment that he was trying to address. The tight restrictions stayed in place for several decades.