> Hasn't immigration *always* been looked upon as a bad thing, to some extent in the US? I'm not very knowledgable about all of this, so I may be completely off base. I just seem to remember people who had been in the country for generations were always angry about evil immigrants taking their jobs. Plus there was all the bad treatment of immigrants even in the heyday of immigration.

Well, I'm sure that, of the peoples who were here first, there were those who weren't thrilled about these immigrants with thunder-sticks coming in. Of course, then there were the welcoming types who were willing to let in the camel's nose. :-)

Of course, not 100 years after settling, they kinda acted like they *made* the place.

I personally think that, rather than being a seniority thing, it was that the other peoples weren't English, and in some cases, not European, which, of course, made them Obviously Inferior.

> Wes - "Reasons why this post is bad: Wes doesn't know much about immigration, and has never used the word heyday before."

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