This 1950s era comic illustrates why the Trump campaign is dying

[Francis Booth]

33. Other than the English and Dutch, every immigrant wave from Europe did their time

in the can, usually a generation or two. My Italian grandparents settled in the Bronx around 1910. It was the only place that Italians could get housing. They were considered filthy peasants, even though they were skilled stonemasons.

The city I grew up in, Worcester, Massachusetts, had distinctly Irish, Italian, Scandanavian, and Polish sections. If you veered too far off of your turf, you'd get your ass kicked for sure.

It seems kind of quaint today, but we still segregate newcomers. These days it's Vietnamese and Cambodians. Poorer cities like Lowell and Lawrence have seen white flight to suburbs, leaving the inner cities to Asian newspcomers.

I think the movie 'Gangs of New York' depicts this brilliantly. The Irish wave of the early 1870s were immediately shipped to the front lines and ground into hamburger. Nobody gave a fuck - they were hungry and were good fighters, so that's where they went. Today they run almost all of the big city and state political machines.

While our ideals were worthy, in practice we didn't do very well at welcoming immigrants. There seems to be a strong tribal instinct hard-wired into us, even to this day.