The last of the big three issues that had driven membership to unprecedented heights was resolved in the Klan’s favor. Congress passed an immigration measure that slammed the door on those who could never meet the Klan’s definition of one hundred percent American. Strict quotas on shunned countries slashed new arrivals from eastern and southern Europe to a bare trickle, shutting out Jews and olive-skinned Catholics. The new law made it impossible for someone from Japan to come to America legally, and tightened the already harsh ban on Chinese. Africa was shut out as well. After all the
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