Effects of 1921 immigration restriction: real wages spiked...

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Effects of 1921 immigration restriction: real wages spiked (decimating unions), domestic servants stopped being a thing, urban ethnic ghettoes and foreign-language press dissipated. Predicted demographic stagnation did not come to pass.
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(Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford History of the American People)
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