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==U.S. Progressives==
==U.S. Progressives==
===Ku Klux Klan===
In May 1926, Margaret Sanger spoke to a New Jersey chapter of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] to promote birth control, subsequently writing in her autobiography:<ref>Sanger, Margaret (1938). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Margaret_Sanger/dbQhAQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=ku%20klux%20klan Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref>
{{cquote|Always to me any aroused group was a good group, and therefore I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan at Silver Lake, New Jersey, one of the weirdest experiences I had in lecturing.|||Autobiography of Margaret Sanger, p. 366}}
===Eugenics in Oregon, 1920s–40s===
===Eugenics in Oregon, 1920s–40s===
According to Robert R. McCoy in the ''Oregon Historical Quarterly'', Vol. 110, the middle-class during the [[Progressive Era]] formed a movement summarized by historians as "radical democratic populism."<ref>McCoy, Robert R. (2009). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20615986 The Paradox of Oregon's Progressive Politics: The Political Career of Walter Marcus Pierce], p. 392. ''JSTOR''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref> Also deemed "reactionary populism," it was used to describe the tendency for Progressive activists to advocate democratic reforms while simultaneously discriminating against racial and ethnic minorities. The Progressive Movement was strong in [[Oregon]], where agrarian contempt for Yankee capitalism fueled left-wing populist causes like free coinage of silver;<ref>"The Paradox of Oregon's Progressive Politics," p. 395.</ref> such economic appeals were mixed with overt anti-Asian sentiment, which was prominent in the West.
According to Robert R. McCoy in the ''Oregon Historical Quarterly'', Vol. 110, the middle-class during the [[Progressive Era]] formed a movement summarized by historians as "radical democratic populism."<ref>McCoy, Robert R. (2009). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20615986 The Paradox of Oregon's Progressive Politics: The Political Career of Walter Marcus Pierce], p. 392. ''JSTOR''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref> Also deemed "reactionary populism," it was used to describe the tendency for Progressive activists to advocate democratic reforms while simultaneously discriminating against racial and ethnic minorities. The Progressive Movement was strong in [[Oregon]], where agrarian contempt for Yankee capitalism fueled left-wing populist causes like free coinage of silver;<ref>"The Paradox of Oregon's Progressive Politics," p. 395.</ref> such economic appeals were mixed with overt anti-Asian sentiment, which was prominent in the West.