The Klan and Catholics

800px-klantreeromeToday, we scoff at the charges the Klan made against the Catholic or Jewish newcomers, and how they declared that such alien populations as Poles and Irish, Slovaks and Italians could never become truly American. Dare we hope that another few decades will throw our current immigration debates into a similar light, and make us ask why we were so bothered back in 2015?

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