Another feature of the 1924 act

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Submitted by Lyle (United States), Jun 11, 2014 17:18

Its national quotas were based on the 1890 census to avoid all the southern and easter europeans in favor of "better" northern europeans. The southern and eastern europeans tended to be Catholic, and of course the KKK in the 1920s was about religion as much as color, Jews and Catholics where evil.

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