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And. in their turn. members of these groups met their successors with more of the same. The Irish are perhaps the only people in our history with the distinction of having a political party. the KnowNothings. formed against them. No party based on bigotry and hatred could be successful in America and the KnowNothings. after a vigorous start. died an ignominious death In the mid1800s. The wave of German immigration began to rise in the middle of the 19th century as Irish immigration began slowly to recede. For the rest of the century the two overlapped. By 1910. there were 8 million Americans either themselves born in Germany or whose parents were born there.