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“Similarly, the Klan worldview blocked inquiry into the actual causes of small entrepreneurs’ and family farmers’ declining fortunes. Blaming immigrants for “stealing” “American” jobs ignored employers’ search for cheap labor.”

The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon

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