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** The Truth: ** Okay. So we just traced the division that pitted North against South in the nineteenth century. But the familiar North-versus-South scenario overlooks the fact that there were actually three major territorial units in the nineteenth century; the North, the South, and the "Midlands", which, true to the name, occupied a huge area between.
 * Lie: ** The United States was strictly divided between the North and South.


 * Lie: ** America has always welcomed immigrants.
 * The Truth: ** America has done better than most countries with its immigration policies. But welcomed? Not so much. If you're tempted to shout out something about the beautiful melting pot of our nation, we'd like to remind you of the "Nativist" political movements that preached virulent hatred of "un-American" immigrants-mostly Catholic Europeans-who began showing up in larger and larger numbers in the 1830s.