Edith Sitwell On America's National Pastime: Aggressive Ignorance & Proud, Boastful Stupidity

Edith Sitwell, poet (1887-1964) 

"Aggressive Ignorance: America's National Pastime"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/07/aggressive-ignorance-americas-national.html

The American Party: Know Nothing Nativism And Opposition To Catholic Immigration

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-american-party-no-nothing-nativism.html
Like the Pharisees, the Know Nothings are always with us.