View single post by Texas Defender  Posted: Fri Sep 7th, 2007
08:51 pm PM Quote Reply Full Topic Texas Defender  Joined: Sat
Jan 27th, 2007 Location: Texas USA Posts: 902     I believe that
appeals to white supremacy to justify discrimination against
other ethnic groups had at their core economic considerations. I
believe that more people were concerned with losing their jobs
rather than their women when large numbers of competitors
established themselves on the scene.    Of course white
southerners considered themselves superior to slaves and free
blacks. So did white northerners (including Abraham Lincoln).
Their status in society was considered to be higher. It had
always been that way.    Throughout American history, the newest
wave of immigrants always faced discrimination by the more
established citizens. The greater the ethnic differences, the
greater and more prolonged discrimination they faced. The
fiercest opposition usually came from those in the wave that had
just preceded the newest one. The new