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Hardly any immigrant population in the US was immediately assimilated. On the NE coast, it was Germans, Italians, and Irish that were discriminated against, since they didn't have many black people. Same with the midwest, though it was Germans, Poles, and Scandinavians. Even the west coast had issues with Chinese,, Armenians, and Japanese immigrants. And, of course, the border states have their Hispanics, since, in Texas, anyone who can only speak Spanish is Mexican, no matter where they were born...
1st and 2nd gen immigrants usually have to deal the most discrimination, usually. In Californis, specifically Fresno, in the late '70s and early '80s, it was the resettled Hmong. NW Arkansas is currently struggling with Marshallese immigrants. (You MAGATs probably thought the US STOPPED making those islands uninhabitable.) It takes generations to assimilate foreigners into a culture.
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