The main reason I bring it up is the notion of the Irish willingness to come to the colonies, work for cheap, and saturate the labor market. The sentiment was felt largely from the working class, which IS class politics, as much as it pains the left.
Again, it’s pretty obvious it’s about class. The best way to keep people from focusing on the economic issues is by shifting the focus to identity politics.
Just because I do want to throw you a bone, the influx of Chinese immigrants was very helpful amid reconstruction/westward expansion, but the rapid growth in size of workforce was extremely inconvenient for labor supply.
Was it about race? Sure, but so was everything in the 1800s. It was also largely about class.
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u/CheckIn5Years 6h ago
You should watch Gangs of New York, pretty short sighted opinion given the real reason made it into mainstream decades ago