Inclusion was never an American ideal, we were just anti-aristocrat. Mobility was a natural restriction on immigration, and as mobility increased, multi-cultural resentment rose alongside it, with policy tempered by pragmatism. Americans were sick of potato niggers by the time of the civil war, but the Union needed bodies, for example.
Inclusion was never an American ideal, we were just anti-aristocrat. Mobility was a natural restriction on immigration, and as mobility increased, multi-cultural resentment rose alongside it, with policy tempered by pragmatism. Americans were sick of potato niggers by the time of the civil war, but the Union needed bodies, for example.