4. Siedlerimperialismus und Rassismus: Landnahme, Besiedlung des Westens und Urbanisierung, 1860–1900

[ … ] more precious even than forms of government are the mental and moral qualities which make what we call our race. While those stand unimpaired all is safe. When those decline all is imperiled [sic]. They are exposed to but a single danger, and that is by changing the quality of our race and citizenship through the wholesale infusion of races whose traditions and inheritances, whose thoughts and whose beliefs are wholly alien to ours, and with whom we have never assimilated or even been associated in the past. The danger has begun.²¹¹