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No one's being silenced, but you are declining to engage the discussion of the facts presented in the article:[blockquote]Social Security and Medicare, the two major examples of universal social insurance in the U.S., were enacted during a half-century between World War I and the 1970s when the foreign-born percentage of the U.S. population was at an all-time low and ethnic differences were fading rapidly in a white majority that made up a secure nine-tenths of the population.

Arguably a sense of post-ethnic, pan-white nationalism, combined with a small nonwhite ma...

Once you've read the full article and are ready to discuss the facts and history it argues, this clip will still be waiting.

No one's being silenced, but you are declining to engage the discussion of the facts presented in the article:[blockquote]Social Security and Medicare, the two major examples of universal social insurance in the U.S., were enacted during a half-century between World War I and the 1970s when the foreign-born percentage of the U.S. population was at an all-time low and ethnic differences were fading rapidly in a white majority that made up a secure nine-tenths of the population.

Arguably a sense of post-ethnic, pan-white nationalism, combined with a small nonwhite majority consisting almost entirely of African-Americans, is one of the reasons, if not the major reason, that the U.S. came closer to European social democracy between 1932 and 1968 than in the periods of greater immigration and cultural heterogeneity that came before and afterward.