The difference between the Know Nothings and people who oppose ILLEGAL immigration to day are substantial.
1) The Know Nothings opposed all foreign immigration whereas most of us today are opposed to the hordes crashing our borders with out respect to our present laws.
2) The Know Nothings were avowed racists. Opponents of todays’ ILLEGAL immigrations are opposed to the breaking of our laws, not the racial make up of the interlopers. Witness the many hispanic opponents of illegal immigration.
...and I am not expressing any opinion on Rooty in this discussion
It is really something for those who want to exploit illegals in ways so similar to slavery , to accuse me of racism .
Yours is the politically correct version. But answer me this....since they were against Irish Catholic immigration, how could that be construed as "racist"? Is Catholicism genetic now? Are the Irish non-white all of a sudden?
And you do know that the Republican Party was essentially the merger of the Whigs, Free Soil and...the American Parties?
You knew that, right?