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During this time period the Ku Klux Klan, and there ideas of white protestant supremacy were very popular. They were strongly against Catholics and Jews, and believed that those groups hated and wanted to rid the world of anything American. "Jews and Catholics are caustic in there criticism of anything American" (J)...
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"Jews and Catholics are caustic in there criticism of anything American" (J). The Klan believed that the immigrants were a threat to their way of life. "...we are intolerant to anything that strikes at the foundations of our race, our country or our freedom of worship" (J)...
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