Session #105 · 1997–99

Speech #1050146155

South Asia. the Azerbaijanis and the Armenians. all of those are religiousbased conflicts. We have managed to avoid that in this country. We have always had a party of fear. There was a party of fear called the KnowNothings. which was really the base of the Republican Party in the 1850s. They did not like Catholics and they did not like anybody who did not speak English. So they did not like Germans and they did not like Irish immigrants. That is the nature of this debate. There is an exhibit opening in the Library of Congress today about the issue of religion in this country.
Keywords matched
immigrants

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Germans Catholics
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Cultural threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JIM MCDERMOTT
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
WA
Gender
M
Date
1998-05-22
Speech ID
1050146155
Paragraph
#0
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