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In reply to the discussion: Bernie is Jewish. Please don't minimize his minority status by calling him "another white person" [View all]Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)"General Ulysses S. Grant issued an order (quickly rescinded by President Abraham Lincoln) of expulsion against Jews from the portions of Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi under his control."
And then, "in the first half of the 20th century, Jews were discriminated against in some employment, not allowed into some social clubs and resort areas, given a quota on enrollment at colleges, and not allowed to buy certain properties. Antisemitism reached its peak during the interwar period. The rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, the antisemitic works of Henry Ford, and the radio speeches of Father Coughlin in the late 1930s indicated the strength of attacks on the Jewish community."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_antisemitism_in_the_United_States