Editing Yellow Peril (section)

====Ethnic national character====
[[File:Yellow peril rupert.jpg|thumb|upright|The religious racialism of ''The Yellow Peril'' (1911, 3rd ed.), by [[G. G. Rupert]], proposed that Russia would unite the Oriental races to invade, conquer, and subjugate Christian civilization in the Western world.]]

To "preserve the ideal of American homogeneity", the [[Emergency Quota Act]] of 1921 (numeric limits) and the [[Immigration Act of 1924]] (fewer southern and eastern Europeans) restricted admission to the United States according to the skin color and the [[race (human categorization)|race]] of the immigrant.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act | author=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian | title=The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act) | access-date=13 February 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116004715/https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act | archive-date=16 November 2019 | url-status=live }}</ref>  In practice, the Emergency Quota Act used outdated census data to determine the number of colored immigrants to admit to the U.S. To protect WASP ethnic supremacy (social, economic, political) in the 20th century, the Immigration Act of 1924 used the twenty-year-old census of 1890, because its 19th-century demographic-group percentages favored more admissions of WASP immigrants from western and northern Europe, and fewer admissions of colored immigrants from Asia and southern and eastern Europe.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act | author=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian | title=The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act) | access-date=13 February 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116004715/https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act | archive-date=16 November 2019 | url-status=live }}</ref>

To ensure that the immigration of colored peoples did not change the WASP national character of the United States, the [[National Origins Formula]] (1921–1965) meant to maintain the ''status quo'' percentages of "[[ethnicity|ethnic populations]]" in lesser proportion to the existing white populations; thus, the yearly quota allowed only 150,000 [[People of Color]] into the U.S.A. In the event, the national-origins Formula was voided and repealed with the [[Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act | author=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian | title=The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act) | access-date=13 February 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116004715/https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act | archive-date=16 November 2019 | url-status=live }}</ref>