The American Prospect
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act , which essentially closed off immigration from Central, Southern , and Eastern Europe in response to a ferocious backlash against Catholics , Jews , and Slavs .
This summer will mark the disastrous Democratic Convention of 1924 , which was so polarized by nativism that it droned on for two weeks and 103 ballots before it could find a presidential candidate acceptable to both its white Protestant hinterlands (the South and the West) and its religiously and racially polyglot big Eastern and Midwestern cities.
America was undergoing a further transformation in the 1920s that made this nativist backlash all the more powerful.
Gershwin 's " American Rhapsody " has become emblematically American as “ The Star-Spangled Banner ’s” opening line is of a piece with the opening line of The Adventures of Augie March , which Saul Bellow famously began with “I am an American , Chicago born,” in a novel that mixes the street slang of mishmash Chicago with academic-ese.
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