Some aspects of the cultural conflicts of the 1920s were rooted in friction between city and country, when for the first time a majority of the nation’s population lived in cities. Nativism was a response to the influcuation of more than 23 million immigrants, many of them Catholics and Jews, who had arrived, and taking over many of the cities. The new wave of immigrants in the early 1900's were from Southern and Eastern Europe, and thus did not have the same culture as the first Americans that had come from Northern and Western Europe. Another reason that the new immigrants did not fit in very well was the fact that the new wave did not come primarily to escape civil oppression, but rather to benefit from America’s booming economics. Immigration was getting so bad that congress had to start limiting the number of immigrants that they would allow in to the United States. This cut immigration by more than half, and completing eliminating Chinese and Japanese immigrants. But this did not stop the Ku Klux Klan from discriminating against the Jews, Catholics, and blacks already in the United States. This helped the clan to gain power in the South, and then emerge in the Democratic Party. Once the KKK got involved with the politics, they felt the had full rein to get up on a platform, and say or promise what people wanted to hear. “The Klan used print media to spread its message of white supremacy”. They would try in everyway to get their message out there, that wanted the best for the people, but really they only wanted the best for themselves. So making false promises that sounded great, but impossible to accomplish developed into a great political platform. This grew like wild fire, and gave the Ku Klux Klan even more popularity than it already had, and always room for more.

A trial of John Scopes of Tennessee in 1925 “ for teaching public attention on fundamentalism, modernism

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