The \u201cno such thing as too much immigration\u201d spirit really leans on the schoolroom narrative of the happy, friendly incorporation of the great 1800s-1900s \u201cwhite ethnic\u201d immigrant waves.
So worth reminding that for generations until the 1950s or even 1970s, they were known as the \u201cunmeltable ethnics\u201d \u2013 distinct, persistent alien cultures characterized by ethnic solidarity, tribal feuding, peasant superstition, quasi-revolutionary mob violence, organized crime, and corrupt transactional unprincipled strongman politics
It was actually a hell of a strain that bent America a lot of ways, and if you don\u2019t hear much of that it\u2019s largely because our civic mythology\u2019s been nipped and tucked to flatter them!
Like, the Irish-Americans, my half-heritage \u2013 whitest of the white ethnics, Literally The Police levels of status quo bias \u2013 all through the Cold War and into the 1990s 4th+ generation citizens were raising funds and weapons to support a terrorist bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, assassination attempts against the Queen and PM, on the tail of a century plus of social, electoral, paramilitary, and terrorist efforts to start a war with the British Empire on principle.
"}