"American society, till the advent of mass immigration, was fairly static. If hypothetical speculations are permitted one may be tempted to say that without the rush after the thirties and forties the States would have developed on social lines parallel to those in England and in other parts of the Occident. It would not have become "America" with an exclamation mark but another "regular" Western country characterized merely by the absence of a Catholic medieval tradition. Yet the mass immigration threw America back to an earlier stage of development, in the chronological sense. America by 1810 had entirely "caught up" with Europe; America in 1890 was partly back in the seventh century A.D., when the unstratified society of barbarians started to settle down."
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Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd (1943), pp. 232–233
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