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Know Nothingism which is not attractive to educated people.
Born Again Redneck 2009
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* Know-Nothingism in 21st Century America: Justin Elliott has the dispiriting tale of a Texas school that nixed Arabic classes because parents were angry that their children were being taught about Islam.
The Morning Plum Greg Sargent 2011
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As White Populism and the new Know-Nothingism sweep America, Harry Reid is going to stake the political future of the Democrats on both helping immigrants and forcing those few citizens who still have jobs to register their fingerprints with the federal government.
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The historian Samuel Eliot Morison wrote that "Know-Nothingism was a flare-up of anti-Catholic and anti-foreign sentiments."
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The historian Samuel Eliot Morison wrote that "Know-Nothingism was a flare-up of anti-Catholic and anti-foreign sentiments."
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I see adult education as a political act, a refutation of this neo-Know Nothingism.
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He gave a softie image, to belie his real programme, that being increased oppression of women, more war on imaginary terrors - which caters to the xenophobia rampant among the Repugnuts today and gross jingo appeals to Know Nothingism.
Sen. Sam Brownback's "yellow brick road" paved on hypocrisy. Michael Caddell 2007
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Know-Nothingism had finally expired in the atmosphere of ethnic unity produced by the Civil War, and the mood of postwar America was such as to militate against a nativist revival.
The Chicago Blog: Getting in before they closed the door 2006
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Know-Nothingism had finally expired in the atmosphere of ethnic unity produced by the Civil War, and the mood of postwar America was such as to militate against a nativist revival.
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Infamous worldwide for Christian religious bigotry and Know - Nothingism; Fred Phelps Westboro Baptist family church has a law suit filed by a dead Marine's dad after a recent protest by the Topeka, Ks based group at a recent Arlington military funeral.
Archive 2006-07-01 Michael Caddell 2006
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