I would expect more Italian immigration to the extent that New York and New Jersey might have been Italians as Buenos Aires and earlier Italian immigrants and their children might penetrate to Midwest in order to avoid post-WWI Italian immigrants.
Even if immigration restriction could be avoided in the 1920's (which I doubt) it is *really* hard for me to see it not happening in the 1930's. It's the Great Depression, "we don't even have enough jobs for our own people" etc.
I would expect more Italian immigration to the extent that New York and New Jersey might have been Italians as Buenos Aires and earlier Italian immigrants and their children might penetrate to Midwest in order to avoid post-WWI Italian immigrants. I would expect Italian Americans to be as populous as the Germans of OTL. I might say that there would be 50 million Italian Americans by 2015 instead of 20 million. I think Pope Francis' father might have gone to the United States instead of Argentina in this scenario.
There would have been large waves of Germans emigrating to the United States, escaping the hardships of war reparations and hyperinflation and more German immigrants would preserve the German language in the United States especially in rural Midwest and persist by present day. I might say that there would be 75 million German Americans by today instead of 50 million 2015 OTL.
There would have been more Eastern Europeans especially Russians, escaping the Bolsheviks and perhaps, might populate the East and West Coasts and form a strong political force in favor of White Russian cause and likely, United States won't forge diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. I could say that Russian Americans would have been 15 million by today like the Italians in 2015 OTL.
Assuming Adolf Hitler rises to power, I think he might encourage emigration instead of extermination of Jews and if Hitler did it, then the United States would have been more populated by Jews with 30 million by today instead of merely 10 million 2015 OTL. More Jewish immigration would alter American politics because of larger population.
Because of continuous European immigration to the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, Great Migration among African Americans would have been butterflied away and be struck with the hardships of Jim Crow's segregation and would put the most of the Deep South into perpetual poverty. Therefore, civil rights for African Americans might not happened even today and segregation stays.
I would expect more Italian immigration to the extent that New York and New Jersey might have been Italians as Buenos Aires and earlier Italian immigrants and their children might penetrate to Midwest in order to avoid post-WWI Italian immigrants. I would expect Italian Americans to be as populous as the Germans of OTL. I might say that there would be 50 million Italian Americans by 2015 instead of 20 million. I think Pope Francis' father might have gone to the United States instead of Argentina in this scenario.
There would have been large waves of Germans emigrating to the United States, escaping the hardships of war reparations and hyperinflation and more German immigrants would preserve the German language in the United States especially in rural Midwest and persist by present day. I might say that there would be 75 million German Americans by today instead of 50 million 2015 OTL.
There would have been more Eastern Europeans especially Russians, escaping the Bolsheviks and perhaps, might populate the East and West Coasts and form a strong political force in favor of White Russian cause and likely, United States won't forge diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. I could say that Russian Americans would have been 15 million by today like the Italians in 2015 OTL.
Assuming Adolf Hitler rises to power, I think he might encourage emigration instead of extermination of Jews and if Hitler did it, then the United States would have been more populated by Jews with 30 million by today instead of merely 10 million 2015 OTL. More Jewish immigration would alter American politics because of larger population.
Because of continuous European immigration to the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, Great Migration among African Americans would have been butterflied away and be struck with the hardships of Jim Crow's segregation and would put the most of the Deep South into perpetual poverty. Therefore, civil rights for African Americans might not happened even today and segregation stays.
I think a possible butterfly is that immigration restriction never occurs for racial reasons, but rather for economic reasons by the 1970s. There would be too far large an influx of unskilled Europeans with by the 1970s, a post-industrial American society. You do not need a ton of hispanic and asian immigrants for menial labor when you have bunch of poor Italian and Eastern Europeans willing to do it.
The immigration pause between the world wars with the post ww2 economic boom created a surplus of high-skill workers that made latin-american immigration necessary. Change the 1920s-40s, and all of the sudden you have a whole generation of unskilled, poor people willing to work with their hands.
Further, Europeans proved to be quite adept at Americanizing Trump-style unlike immigrants from Latin America and Asia. For example, I know tons of Italians and other Europeans whose parents were immigrants, but they are vehemently anti-immigrant.
What Eastern Europeans? We're discussing post-WW1 PODs, so the USSR still exists, and presumably WW2 and the Iron Curtain happen on schedule.
Southern Italy and Sicily, which provided the vast majority of Italian immigration, still were poor and will immigrate.For the same reason, what Italians? Postwar Italy was no longer poor.
Asian immigration probably gets liberalized on schedule. Civil rights-era America would find the Chinese Exclusion Act and such risible no matter what.
...except that the US mass-deported ethnic Mexicans in the 1950s in Operation Wetback, even though at the time its immigrant population was at a nadir.
The big change in skill level in the US happened around the Depression and WW2.
Huh? Ted Cruz, a second-generation Hispanic-American, is vehemently against immigration.
1. HollywoodA large cadre of first-generation immigrants learn English, which was not true 100 years ago, when it was easier to stay in one's ethnic enclave.
Between 1918-1939, which is good for a whole additional generation of Polish,, Yugoslavian, and other immigrants.
Southern Italy and Sicily, which provided the vast majority of Italian immigration, still were poor and will immigrate.
Immigration limitations like I said might come about for economic, not racial reasons.
Of course, and it continued with the GI bill and tons of immigrants working their butts of and making sure their kids get schooled. However, this changes with tons of poor immigrants still coming in from Europe during the interwar years.
LOL, he is running for President in 2016, you take that seriously?
Again, I was not making the categorical statement that non-European immigrants are never against immigration. I was merely making the observation that Europeans tend to be more vehemently anti-immigrant than other ethnicities in the US, something that even can be seen in 1800s political cartoons like the one I posted.
1. Hollywood
2. Music
3. Texting...hard to text when phones don't have letters in your native language. In Cambodia, all the young people know enough English merely to text.
I know this was touched upon a bit but this would have huge repercussions on the Holocaust or if it even happens correct?
Would Hitler try to attempt to stop jews from immigrating to the US? or would it be the opposite and he giving them no other alternative?