1Jean Baker, Ambivalent Americans : The Know-Nothing Party in Maryland (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977), p. 153.
2Alice Felt Tyler, Freedom's Ferment: Phrase in American Social History from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Civil War (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), p. 351.
3Juan F. Perea, Immigrants Out !, p. 15.
4Michael Lind, The Next American Nation, p. 250.
5Michael Lind, The Next American Nation, p.245-250.
6Bill Ong Hing, To Be An American : Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation(New York: New York University Press, 1997), pp. 28, 147.
7Pyong Gap Min, Mass Migration to the United States: Classical and Contemporary Periods(New York : Altamira Press, 2002), pp. 37-54,106.
8Peter Brimelow, Alien Nation: Common Sense about America's Immigration Disaster (NewYork: Random House, 1995), pp. 12-13.
9William H. Harris and Judith S. Levey, The New Columbia Encyclopedia (New York and London : Columbia University Press, 1975), p. 1895.
10Dictionary of American History (New York: Charles Scribner's, 1976), Revised edition,Vol. V, pp. 2-3.