With the economy in a rut and anxieties about national security festering in the nether regions of America's social conscience, it's minorities--immigrants, outsiders, heathens, you name it--who now, as in the past, bear the brunt of the backlash. Tolerance sounds swell so long as the [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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