@craigmaloney It goes back considerably further than that, and much can be traced to "segregation academies" (often religiously-denominated) in the South following Brown v. Board.

For a fascinating snapshot of the situation circa 1960, see "The American Right Wing: A Report to the Fund for the Republic, Inc.":

https://archive.org/details/americanrightwin00ells/page/2/mode/2up

What struck me was how many of the names (both orgs and people) were familiar and either still in play or in play well through the 1980s / 90s.

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American Xenophobia is Not New, 1960–2000 Was an Aberration

A HN reader asks “What happened to the US in the past fourty years?”... The trend unfortunately dates back through history. The 1960s through 1990s were a high period of openness to foreigners and globalisation, across the political spectrum, though not universally embraced. ... But the xenophobic pattern is clear in the history of American Immigration law. Forced Mexican Repatriation (1932), The National Origins Formula (1924), California Alien Land Law of 1913, Anarchist Exclusion Act (1901), Chinese Exclusion Act (1882). The Page Act (1875) barring “immigrants considered ‘undesirable,’'....

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4d4f2500c7a40138a805002590d8e506 (dead link)

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