u.s. politics

MADAM PRESIDENT? Monday, Aug. 4, 2003 From the Watergate affair to the Children’s Defense Fund, from the “mean streets” of Chicago to the Illinois governor’s mansion to the United States Senate, Senator Hillary Rodham-Marks has always, in the words of her 1969 Wellesley College commencement...

Is there a way without a surviving confederacy or war with Britain or some other such great conflict to have the U.S implement an anti immigrant platform? Where the democrats of this period anti immigrant (sans Irish)?

For those who don't know, marching clubs like the Wide Awakes were paramilitary Lincolnites dressed in black capes and with military caps. Who protected Republican rallies and ran military drills and drills in antebellum America before the 1860 election. The parallels to the Blackshirt...