I don't understand how one can be pro living wage and pro widespread immigration.

[Jim Beard]

110. That statue means nothing.

The immigrant Chinese were used to build the railroads and when finished, they were sent back.


Check all these out.....List of Ethnic Riots

Nativist Period 1700s–1860

1824: Providence, Rhode Island Hard Scrabble Riots
1829: Cincinnati riots of 1829 Rioting against African Americans results in over a thousand leaving for Canada.
1829: Charlestown Anti-Catholic Riots
1831: Providence, Rhode Island
1834: Massachusetts Convent Burning
1834: Philadelphia pro-slavery riots[12]
1834: New York City pro-slavery riots
1835: Boston pro-slavery riots
1835: Five Points Riot
1835: Washington, D.C.[13][14]
1836: Cincinnati riots of 1836 - Several anti-abolitionist riots
1841: Cincinnati, Ohio White Irish-descendant and Irish immigrant dock workers rioted against Black dock workers. When the Black dock workers banded together to defend their community from the approaching Whites, the White rioters retreated and then commandeered a 6-pound cannon and shot it through the streets of Cincinnati.
1844: Philadelphia Nativist Riots (May 6–8, July 5–8)
1851: Hoboken Anti-German Riot
1855: Louisville Anti-German Riots

Civil War Period 1861–1865

1863: New York City Draft Riot
1863: Detroit Race Riot

Reconstruction Period: 1865–1877

1866: New Orleans Riot
1866: Memphis, Tennessee
1868: Pulaski Riot
1868: Opelousas, Louisiana
1868: Camilla, Georgia
1870: Eutaw, Alabama
1870: Laurens, South Carolina
1870: New York City Orange Riot
1871: Second New York City Orange Riot
1871: Los Angeles Anti-Chinese Riot
1871: Meridian, Mississippi
1891: New Orleans Anti-Italian Riot
1873: Colfax massacre
1874: Vicksburg, Mississippi
1874: New Orleans, Louisiana {Liberty place riot see[15]}
1874: Coushatta, Louisiana
1875: Yazoo City, Mississippi
1875: Clinton, Mississippi
1876: Hamburg Massacre
1876: Ellenton, South Carolina

Jim Crow Period: 1878–1914

1885: Anti-Chinese riot in Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory
1886: Seattle riot of 1886[16]
1898: Wilmington Insurrection of 1898[17]
1898: Lake City, South Carolina
1898: Greenwood County, South Carolina
1900: Robert Charles Riots
1900: New York City
1906: Atlanta Race Riot[18]
1906: Brownsville, Texas
1907: Onancock, Virginia
1907: Pacific Coast Race Riots of 1907
1908: Springfield Race Riot of 1908[19]
1909: Omaha, Nebraska anti-Greek riot
1910: Nationwide riots following the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries in Reno, Nevada on July 4

War and inter-war period: 1914–1945

1917: East St. Louis Riot[20]
1917: Chester, Pennsylvania
1917: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1917: Houston Riot
Red Summer of 1919
*1919: Washington, D.C.
*1919: Chicago Race Riot of 1919[21]
*1919: Omaha Race Riot of 1919
*1919: Charleston, South Carolina
*1919: Longview, Texas
*1919: Knoxville Riot of 1919
*1919: Elaine Race Riot
1920: Ocoee Massacre
1921: Tulsa race riot (Tulsa, Oklahoma)[22]
1923: Rosewood massacre (Rosewood, Florida)[23]
1927: Yakima Valley Anti-Filipino Riot[24]
1928: Wenatchee Valley Anti-Filipino Riot[24]
1929: Exeter Anti-Filipino Riot[25]
1930: Watsonville Anti-Filipino Riots, which inspired race riots in San Francisco, Salinas and San Jose and attacks elsewhere.[25]
1935: Harlem Riot of 1935
1943: Detroit Race Riot[26]
1943: Beaumont Race Riot of 1943
1943: Harlem Riot of 1943
1943: Zoot Suit Riots

Postwar era: 1946–1954

1946: Columbia, Tennessee Riot
1949: Peekskill Riots
1951: Cicero Race Riot in Illinois