The Paleo Conservatives' Search for Allies

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George H.W. Bush's new world order set off a thousand blog entries and everything else between including, I've still never understood how there is that the world wrestling thing. But so anyway, these people who were against Bush and the Neo conservatives, Bush won, called themselves paleo conservatives self-consciously. We're not Neo, we're paleo, we're going back. And they wanted an America that sort of more walled off from the world and explicitly walling off from incoming immigrants from the non-white world. Part of their platform was to kind of roll back the 1965 Immigration Act which had broken with the previous existing racial and national quotas for immigration.

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