Running Towards America, Ctd

by Chris Bodenner

Matt Duss tackles Ross' column:

Whatever positive function nativism and bigotry, institutionalizedand otherwise, may have performed in encouraging greater, fasterassimilation is far outweighed by the harassment and discriminationendured by new immigrants as a result. This attempt at even-handednessalso leads Douthat to underappreciate the extent to which, just asnewly arriving Catholic, Jewish, Italian, German, and Chineseimmigrants became more American upon arriving here...