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The Vulnerability of the Conservative in the 20s
The KKK felt that the greatest threat to America in the 20s was Catholic immigrants from Italy and Eastern Southern Europe. From the beginning, prohibition was tied up with anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic biases. Many of its advocates were white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who thought only people like them could be real Americans.