Thought of a phrase: alt confidence. The generally higher sense of self certainty that comes with adopting fringe views. I think it’s a selection effect. People who can’t tolerate high uncertainty centrifuge farther out to edge.
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Modern immigration standards didn't (accidentally) start until immigration act of 1965. Before then it was "free white persons of good character" even up to 1923 the supreme court made this decision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_Thind …
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Btw i'm not saying we should return to this standard, but it's important to recognize how weird and recent your idea of America is.
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Yeah I agree, am mostly thinking post LBJ. But philosophically there’s been continuous opening up. Even getting to an expansive definition of ‘white’ to include Irish/Italian took a while. And Jackson gave non-propertied whites the vote only in 1830s. That trendline has flipped
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