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Divided doesn't necessarily mean partitioned; it could be broken up into a number of successor states. I suppose it is up to the author how far the analogy is carried.

The British transported convicts to America right up to the Revolutionary War. One fourth of the migrants during the eighteenth century from Britain to the British colonies were transported convicts. During the war the British had to house the buildup of convicted criminals on decommissioned...

In the appendix on languages, Stirling mentions "Mormon enclaves in the Rockies".

In my last post was a report to the Secretary of the Interior from the head of the agency directly responsible for resettling Japanese-Americans, in which he stated that acceptance of Japanese-Americans was at an all-time high. Yes there still were virulently anti-Japanese voices at the end of...

You have asked for sources whenever I have corrected your unsupported assertions. Please provide contemporaneous evidence of your assertions of a trend of increasing anti-Japanese American sentiment in the United States during the course of the war. This does not match my family's experience nor...

Most of those released settled in cities, the city of Chicago alone received more than 6000. Here is a more fine-grained description of the situation of the 300 in Des Moines in 1944...

Actually, more than 6000 Japanese-Americans also served in the military in the Pacific Theater. They served mainly in the Military Intelligence Service, as translators and interrogators. Their service was unpublicised, to keep the Japanese military lax in their security in thinking that the...

Japanese-Americans were barred from an area of the Pacific coast that included California, most of Oregon and Washington, and part of Arizona. These restrictions were not lifted until December 1944. Most of those released did not work in agriculture; most found work in the urban areas where the...

They were released to where they had job offers; this would not correlate very well to places with low populations. The locations were not necessarily inland, they could be on the Atlantic or Gulf coasts. The WRA offices were scattered around the country, as seen in the quote below. Here is a...

People were moved around mainly to separate and congregate the "no-no's" who refused to sign the loyalty oath, seeing it as an insult to their citizenship or fearing it would be used against them. My aunt and uncle were farmers before the war; I know my grandparents on that side had an orchard...

Here is a quote from a document produced by the War Relocation Authority in May 1943: http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/relocbook.html

Here is the relevant page from one of the War Relocation Authority's semi-annual reports: http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Japanese-American_Internment_Camp_Population_Study Release from the camps wasn't that uncommon. I had an aunt and uncle that were released to work in the apple harvest in...

BS. As I stated above, tens of thousands of Japanese Americans were released during the war. From a high of over 110,000 in May 1942, by January 1944 there were 92,000 remaining in camps, reduced further to 82,000 by June of that year. So there were tens of thousands of Japanese Americans...

The internment was not total for the duration of the war. Release was possible to states away from the Pacific coast, when there were sponsors and the promise of work or school. Thousands left the camps every year through such releases, tens of thousands by the end of the war. So there was...

No. The historical situation provides a controlled experiment. In Hawaii, the Japanese-American population remained free, and committed zero acts of sabotage. In the continental US, the Japanese-American population were put into relocation camps, from which it was common to receive release to...