[cyborg]

Well there were large contingents of Nazi sympathizers here on Long Island during the same time and they were never locked up. Actually, the neo-nazis still have a small presence here on LI. I don't make excuses and pretend that racism didn't play a part in making it MUCH easier to lock up Japanese people. FDR would NOT have won friends if he started locking up white people. I'll bet money on that one.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Is it true that Yaphank actually has some streets named after high-ranking Nazi/German officials? I don't know where I heard this, and probably dismissed it as a baseless rumor when I first heard it, but somehow it got stuck in my head.

[ml/nj]

FDR would NOT have won friends if he started locking up white people.

Lincoln has a lot of friends.

ML/NJ

[jpl]

Well there were large contingents of Nazi sympathizers here on Long Island during the same time and they were never locked up. Actually, the neo-nazis still have a small presence here on LI. I don't make excuses and pretend that racism didn't play a part in making it MUCH easier to lock up Japanese people. FDR would NOT have won friends if he started locking up white people. I'll bet money on that one.

It may well have been racism, but it may also have had something to do with the fact that Japan directly attacked and killed people on United States territory, whereas Germany never did.

Most of us today barely even acknowledge that Pearl Harbor happened anymore, but don't ever underestimate the amount of outrage it stirred up within America at the time it actually happened.

[Ditto]

Well there were large contingents of Nazi sympathizers here on Long Island during the same time and they were never locked up.

Actually, many were. Italians too. Check it out.

[Skywalk]

Even Hoover was against the "relocation/internment." That should tell ya something.