Not Like Us
Overview
Groups
Primary Groups
Immigrants General
(61,456)
Refugees
(26,364)
Undocumented Immigrants
(24,742)
Specific Other
(15,367)
Jewish
(9,798)
Naturalized Citizens
(4,730)
Chinese
(3,964)
Mexican
(3,212)
Asian
(1,959)
European
(1,765)
Italian
(1,620)
Latin American
(1,577)
Irish
(1,237)
Polish
(960)
German
(936)
African
(308)
Middle Eastern
(275)
Slavic
(230)
Subgroups
Soviet Jew
(4,972)
Cuban
(1,602)
Dreamer
(1,473)
Haitian
(931)
Armenian
(930)
Vietnamese
(819)
Japanese
(803)
Lithuanian
(766)
Hispanic
(725)
Afghan
(597)
Syrian
(520)
Greek
(491)
Arab
(464)
Hungarian
(461)
Greek Cypriot
(448)
Ukrainian
(400)
Palestinian
(376)
Cambodian
(350)
Indochinese
(341)
Filipino
(340)
Salvadoran
(290)
Iraqi
(254)
Russian
(222)
Korean
(193)
Baltic
(181)
Hmong
(174)
Nicaraguan
(170)
Kurdish
(162)
Romanian
(157)
Lebanese
(140)
North Korean
(139)
Indian
(131)
Estonian
(128)
Iranian
(124)
Puerto Rican
(124)
Venezuelan
(124)
Portuguese
(113)
Syrian Jew
(111)
South Vietnamese
(109)
Liberian
(108)
Muslim
(108)
Kosovar
(104)
Norwegian
(99)
Bosnian
(96)
Burmese
(89)
Southeast Asian
(87)
Sudanese
(86)
Tibetan
(83)
Asian Pacific
(81)
Canadian
(77)
Ethiopian Jew
(77)
Somali
(66)
Catholic
(59)
Guatemalan
(57)
Framing
Legal / procedural
(91,251)
Humanitarian
(47,828)
Economic contributor
(25,398)
Security threat
(22,599)
Victim
(21,777)
Economic threat
(20,945)
Cultural enrichment
(9,497)
Family values
(9,239)
Criminal
(9,020)
Cultural threat
(4,151)
Sessions
#43 · 1873–75
(276)
#44 · 1875–77
(254)
#45 · 1877–79
(371)
#46 · 1879–81
(464)
#47 · 1881–83
(996)
#48 · 1883–85
(390)
#49 · 1885–87
(290)
#50 · 1887–89
(906)
#51 · 1889–91
(738)
#52 · 1891–93
(487)
#53 · 1893–95
(917)
#54 · 1895–97
(593)
#55 · 1897–99
(538)
#56 · 1899–1901
(364)
#57 · 1901–03
(956)
#58 · 1903–05
(302)
#59 · 1905–07
(1,072)
#60 · 1907–09
(487)
#61 · 1909–11
(529)
#62 · 1911–13
(1,146)
#63 · 1913–15
(1,859)
#64 · 1915–17
(1,164)
#65 · 1917–19
(680)
#66 · 1919–21
(1,225)
#67 · 1921–23
(1,151)
#68 · 1923–25
(1,840)
#69 · 1925–27
(635)
#70 · 1927–29
(672)
#71 · 1929–31
(1,438)
#72 · 1931–33
(581)
#73 · 1933–35
(344)
#74 · 1935–37
(777)
#75 · 1937–39
(615)
#76 · 1939–41
(1,261)
#77 · 1941–43
(584)
#78 · 1943–45
(794)
#79 · 1945–47
(732)
#80 · 1947–49
(1,077)
#81 · 1949–51
(1,755)
#82 · 1951–53
(1,689)
#83 · 1953–55
(1,641)
#84 · 1955–57
(1,708)
#85 · 1957–59
(1,820)
#86 · 1959–61
(1,545)
#87 · 1961–63
(2,336)
#88 · 1963–65
(2,059)
#89 · 1965–67
(3,161)
#90 · 1967–69
(1,787)
#91 · 1969–71
(1,792)
#92 · 1971–73
(2,776)
#93 · 1973–75
(2,774)
#94 · 1975–77
(3,086)
#95 · 1977–79
(2,721)
#96 · 1979–81
(3,989)
#97 · 1981–83
(4,175)
#98 · 1983–85
(4,887)
#99 · 1985–87
(5,354)
#100 · 1987–89
(4,367)
#101 · 1989–91
(4,111)
#102 · 1991–93
(3,660)
#103 · 1993–95
(4,209)
#104 · 1995–97
(4,940)
#105 · 1997–99
(3,732)
#106 · 1999–2001
(3,976)
#107 · 2001–03
(3,933)
#108 · 2003–05
(4,003)
#109 · 2005–07
(7,964)
#110 · 2007–09
(6,134)
#111 · 2009–11
(3,741)
#112 · 2011–13
(2,900)
#113 · 2013–15
(6,775)
#114 · 2015–17
(4,334)
#115 · 2017–19
(5,797)
#116 · 2019–21
(4,468)
#117 · 2021–23
(4,025)
#118 · 2023–25
(5,213)
Speakers
Narratives
States
Alabama
(3,760)
Alaska
(378)
American Samoa
(74)
Arizona
(2,729)
Arkansas
(815)
California
(13,255)
Colorado
(3,292)
Connecticut
(2,166)
Delaware
(777)
District of Columbia
(91)
Florida
(5,115)
Georgia
(2,255)
Guam
(150)
Hawaii
(1,141)
Idaho
(911)
Illinois
(7,813)
Indiana
(1,829)
Iowa
(3,082)
Kansas
(1,441)
Kentucky
(2,186)
Louisiana
(1,479)
Maine
(866)
Maryland
(2,484)
Massachusetts
(6,706)
Michigan
(3,502)
Minnesota
(3,036)
Mississippi
(1,472)
Missouri
(1,897)
Montana
(695)
Nebraska
(979)
Nevada
(1,790)
New Hampshire
(1,052)
New Jersey
(3,880)
New Mexico
(1,249)
New York
(12,775)
North Carolina
(2,171)
North Dakota
(1,049)
Ohio
(3,811)
Oklahoma
(1,167)
Oregon
(1,805)
Pennsylvania
(4,319)
Puerto Rico
(71)
Rhode Island
(1,258)
South Carolina
(1,456)
South Dakota
(948)
Tennessee
(2,003)
Texas
(10,502)
Utah
(1,745)
Vermont
(2,096)
Virgin Islands
(108)
Virginia
(1,659)
Washington
(2,095)
West Virginia
(1,376)
Wisconsin
(2,820)
Wyoming
(1,634)
About
Framing Category
historical_comparison
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Partisan sentiment over time
Share of historical_comparison-framed mentions by sentiment, per session — stratified by party
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Target groups over time
Share of historical_comparison-framed mentions by target group, per session
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Immigrants General
Mentions over time
historical_comparison mentions per 1,000 speeches analyzed, per session — stacked by party
Geographic distribution
Total historical_comparison-framed mentions by state, 1873–2025