re: #721 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

Not so. Nothing was institutionalized like slavery but plenty of white-bigot conservative crap was institutionalized and sometimes not even broken down until the 60s.

One of the reasons for such low Chinese numbers was exclusion, and immigration quotas that restricted them.

Anti-Coolie Act, CA 1862

Anti-Coolie Law, 1862

Asian-Americans, i.e., Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Hindus and Sikhs, like we did in 1896, had rights taken away from them via several Anti-Alien laws.

Asiatic Exclusion League check out that founding city

CA Alien Land Law of 1913

Rotfl

I think you left out the anti-Chinese laundry act in San Francisco. Ironically it led to the first Supreme Court decision upholding the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment, in the Yick Wo case.

Purely subjective, I’ll admit, but I would contend that anti-black (and anti-Asian as well) sentiment is more of a problem in the south today than on the west coast. Just my impression having lived almost half my life in the South and the other half in L.A.