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“Agitators claimed that white workers could not compete against the hardworking and frugal Chinese, who were, in what seemed to be a contradictory prejudice, perceived as racially and culturally inferior in many fundamental ways. Racists held that white workers could not compete against Chinese, but also that they should not have to. The railroad that Chinese had helped build produced a terrible unintended consequence.”
― Gordon H. Chang, Ghosts Of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad