Published at a time when America was marking the three-hundredth anniversary of the Puritan arrival at Cape Cod and written by H.L. Mencken with his characteristic sense of hopelessness, this small piece remarks that (up to that point in time) immigrants to America were all cut from the same Puritan cloth. The Puritan has been a reoccurring figure in America
“and will not die out…until the delusion of moral perfection is lost and forgotten”.
1920s anti-Immigration editorial by HL Mencken1920s pro-xenophobia articleImmigrants to the United States and bitter remarks from HL Menckenxenophobic response to Immigration CyclesAmerican Reinvention and US immigrationAmerican Character and massive immigrationxenophobia is Characteristically AmericanTwentieth Century European Immigration and HL Mencken xenophobia
1920s anti-Immigration editorial by HL Mencken1920s pro-xenophobia articleImmigrants to the United States and bitter remarks from HL Menckenxenophobic response to Immigration CyclesAmerican Reinvention and US immigrationAmerican Character and massive immigrationxenophobia is Characteristically AmericanTwentieth Century European Immigration and HL Mencken xenophobia
