Comments by "Bev Bevan" (@bevbevan6189) on "Explaining America's Identity in 10 Ethnicities" video.

  1. or both
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  2. It's in chronological order that the bulk of the group came to the country.
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  3. Not significant except a few towns, such as suburban Detroit. But things change.
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  4. Don't use your real name for that comment!
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  5. A Republican politician
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  6. He was a scumbag, but it would've happened without him.
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  7. It's not you.
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  8.  @colonelmilk2327  Look at how toxic this comment section is on that very topic. Everyone has a different reason, some are valid, some are racist BS. There's no reason for him to go down into that swamp.
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  9.  @Great_Olaf5  His father was from Bavaria and his mother from Scotland, so no. Van Buren did grow up speaking Dutch as his first language.
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  10.  @sebsebski2829  Yes. All were recruited as docile labor for the mines and steel mills of the American Rust Belt from 1880-1920 and stayed there. After WWII, rising wages moved them into the middle class. Then those industries shrank and the third or fourth generation assimilated and prospered. True for Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Croats and Lithuanians anyway.
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  11. That's like a Louis L'amour plot.
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  12. True. That is the outstanding example.
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  13. Read the comments. It's suicide to elaborate on that topic in the US - everyone has a very strong opinion and most of those opinions have validity.
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  14. The end got a little twisted. It was the Whigs who became Republicans. The Democrat-Republicans became the Democrats.
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  15. Because the whites wanted the good land and then wanted the oil and the federal government helped them.
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  16. Most of the discrimination against the Jews was illegal or contractual, but seldom in the actual state laws.
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  17. Rhode Island and parts of Massachusetts also.
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  18. Because you see it everywhere?
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  19.  @unatco1148  Not Malthusian though.
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  20. The Mayflower carried 135 people, not 200. But who's counting?
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  21. Please elaborate.
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  22. Completely different. Brought in as fodder for the mines and steel mills just as the Mexicans were brought in for the farms. Took two generations to realize the importance of education in America. Now doing fabulously.
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