Eric Eggen

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Ross agreed with Walker, and for that matter Theodore Roosevelt and Frances Willard, that white Americans of Anglo-Saxon stock had emerged as the world’s superior race, and he thought they were in danger of committing “race suicide” as the “inferior” races outbred them. This would become a common view among later Progressives.
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)
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