Are you saying America was ok taking immigrants only as long as they were European?

That was the law up until the the Hart Cellar act of the 60's.

I'm asking about things working better when only Europeans were allowed, not the law. You were implying the former with your comment.

I don't think that website implies what you're thinking. The only significant thing that happened in 1971 is that Nixon suspended the convertibility of the dollar into gold, giving the US leeway to run unlimited deficits, paying for imports with paper.

Now, America wants to reduce its debt and curb industrial powers like the EU, Japan, China, etc. but it doesn't want to give up its exorbitant privilege that got it into the debt whole in the first place.

You can't have it both ways.

Its just data.

It could be a result of numerous causes.

My point still stands.

No, your point doesn't stand at all. It's completely baseless. You took a detailed resource referencing America's departure from a gold standard and you're twisting it to support your pet immigration policy.

Now, if you want to limit non-European immigration, it's a personal opinion and you have a right to it, but you can't make a blanket statement that, "everything worked better," or misinterpret data to say what you want.

Don't pretend you're being data-driven when you've made up your mind and now you're trying to torture the data into saying what you want.

What metrics are you measuring by?

So, while it seemed like you were trying to argue logically, it appears your argument is: I don't like non-Europeans. And you're trying to massage the data into showing your opinion is data-driven because it can't stand on its own merit.

But, feel free to change my mind with more data.

Aah racism. Cool cool cool glad you got it out there.

I think it’s pretty clear that’s not what I’m saying.