Back in the 1840S, a group of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants in New York founded the Know-Nothing movement—also known as the Order of the Star Spangled Banner or, in the 1850s, the American Party—to agitate against the new wave of immigrants from Catholic Ireland and Germany. When asked about their organization’s semi-secret activities, members were supposed to reply, “I know nothing”—hence the name Know-Nothings.
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