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2016 Postmortem

muntrv

(14,505 posts) Sun Sep 4, 2016, 01:48 PM Sep 2016

From Daily Kos: "Hey NPR, let me help you with that Catholics for Clinton detail.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/1/1566004/-Hey-NPR-Let-Me-Help-You-With-That-Question-About-Catholics-For-Clinton?detail=facebook

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From Daily Kos: "Hey NPR, let me help you with that Catholics for Clinton detail. (Original Post) muntrv Sep 2016 OP

The article is correct but it only mentions Irish and German American Catholics. pnwmom Sep 2016 #1

The US had relatively open immigration Retrograde Sep 2016 #2

pnwmom

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1. The article is correct but it only mentions Irish and German American Catholics.

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Sun Sep 4, 2016, 02:13 PM

Sep 2016

There were also large waves of Italian and Polish Catholic immigrants, and smaller numbers of Catholic immigrants from other countries, who also viewed in a similar way as the Mexican and South and Central American Catholics today.

Retrograde

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2. The US had relatively open immigration

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Sun Sep 4, 2016, 03:55 PM

Sep 2016

until the early 20th century - just about anyone from anywhere (well,anywhere in Europe) could come. Then c. 1920 that changed, and the US went to a quota system that favored immigrants from Britain and Western Europe over those from Eastern and Southern Europe. Why? To keep people like my grandparents out: it was felt "those people" were too foreign.

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