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When did the shift from the 1890 census calculation basis for quotas to the 1928 demographic basis occur?

I wonder if beyond the general 'fairness' aspect the proponents had a pragmatic diplomatic goal in mind. Switching to a quota system applied to Asians (as well as Europeans), especially one using an early base year like 1890 or 1880, could have had fairly similar limiting effects on Japanese...

Did you ever grab the full-text off of LibGen? Could you pass via PM?

Quite a lot happened in those 4 years: US entry into WWI - a national campaign for 100% Americanism and pressure to not act like a "hyphenated" American if that connected you with the enemy (for German-Americans) or made you unenthusiastic for working with our allies (for Irish-Americans). The...

But - when does *selection* by literacy evolve into hard limitation by quantity and nationality? Or is the next evolution a selection limitation to literacy in English only, or English and a couple other select languages? And note that education and literacy levels are variable, and pretty...

Were northern interests really responsible for holding Alabama steel back? Or was it other factors? Poorer infrastructure, greater distance from markets and ports (that weren't as wealthy anyway), fewer high end engineers and mid-level skilled mechanics, etc.?

Given all the obstacles you cite to sustaining public tolerance for mass "new" immigration at 1910s levels through the 1920s and beyond, why is that the best bet? What's more likely given basic, foundational American socio-political structures and attitudes, an outbreak of assimilationist or...

The challenge is to have no African-American 20th century 'Great Migration' north and west. Your PoD can be 20th century, or late 19th century, but it must be post *1868*. This would leave the African-American population overwhelmingly concentrated in the southern United States through the 20th...