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Had the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act been delayed by a couple of decades or so (say, by having President Garfield survive his assassination, get an epiphany afterwards, have enough nerve to veto all versions of the Chinese Exclusion Act afterwards, and then narrowly hold New York and thus win re-election in 1884 after the Democrats run against him on an anti-Chinese platform--something which results in a setback of a couple of decades for the pro-Chinese exclusion movement), how much larger would the U.S.'s Chinese population be today (in 2017)?

Any thoughts on this?
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