[golux]

As a hook-nosed, Red Sea Pedestrian third generation American NAVY (I hear we use ships now, not sandals and sticks, to project power to foreign aggressors) I don't really have a dog in this fight, but may I recommend a movie? Gangs of New York. It is very, very, very good. On par with any of the great American films - right at the top. Right on this topic.

[morphing libertarian]

I also recommend the book.

[Big Red Badger]

Gangs of New York...
Knockout!

[Peter Libra]

Your post #26.

Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill Cutting, the nativist, was a masterpiece. What photography and recreation of how old New York looked. I read extensively of the actual character who existed at the time. He was William Poole, a nativist. Lewis had him down pat. Poole was mortally wounded in a bar room scuffle. When dying he cried out he was glad to die an American.