The former Governor of Massachusetts. in the early 1900s. said that. in fact. they are sending the most illiterate of their people to our shores. He was talking then about the Irish. In 1925. in an official report of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. they said: We need the Mexicans because of their bending and crouching habits which the whites cannot attain themselves to in order to pick our produce. We had the Chinese exclusionary provisions. So while this has always been a welcoming country. the debate has not been as welcoming. On that day when the "Grand Bargain" was announced.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about the Irish being illiterate.