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[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Needless to say it doesn't square with this nation's history of welcoming immigrants of whatever ethnicity, putting them to work, and doing business with them, to enhance the dignity and fortunes of everyone involved...

Your ellipsis shows the sarcasm! Well done!

Just saying, the ownership codicils in our own neighborhood noted that we could not sell to various ethnic groups or have them in the house after dark unless they were live-in domestic help. And The Wife™ and I live in Seattle, about as lefty as cities come. And our neighborhood was hardly unique. People wouldn't buy in neighborhoods that didn't have such restrictions (well, white people, and the right kind of white at that).

[garote]

Freakin' amazing.
Which ethnic groups were singled out?

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Actually, these were freakin' common, not amazing. As to specifics, it depended on the neighborhood (http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/covenants.htm). I live in Hayes Park, a subdivision in Ravenna, so mine read:

No person other than one of the white race shall be permitted to occupy any portion of any lot in said plat or of any building thereon, except a domestic servant actually employed by a white occupant of such building.

Most of these were repealed by a vote of the communities. One, along Lake Washington, decided to keep theirs intact. (Matthews Beach might have been the holdout; I can't remember exactly.)

Oh, and just for emphasis: Eastern Europeans were not considered "white" or "caucasian" enough. My friend's grandfather had to move to the East side of Lk. WA because he was Croatian, and didn't want to buy property next to blacks.

[garote]

Wow. Even one that read "Aryans only". And this was just 50 years ago...

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Worse, it wasn't repealed officially until about ten years ago.