A Catholic nomination in 1928 proved nativism’s structural retreat.
Evidence
The anti-Catholic spirit that the order embodied flared up violently again in the election of 1928, when the Democratic candidate, Al Smith, seemed almost the Pope incarnate. But that campaign failed to revive an organized nativist movement. The really significant fact was that 100 per cent Americanism had receded enough so that a Catholic with a progressive record could win a Presidential nomination. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1976
Categorization
- XREF: Anti-Catholic nativism flares one last time and fails to re-coalesce — bearing on the reader’s view that racialization was a transitional form of the enemy category that later reverted toward tolerance of the ethnic other. — connects to: Nativism’s victory in 1924 threatened its own survival by removing its threat — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1952; Protestant nativism reinvigorated where Catholicism clashed with American liberty ideals. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 38; Nativist ideology outlived its emotional drive after 1924. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1960 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Protestant nativism reinvigorated where Catholicism clashed with American liberty ideals.
#contradicts(0.80) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 38 - Anti-Catholic nativism peaked after mass Catholic immigration, not before it
#corroborates(0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 287 - Nativist ideology outlived its emotional drive after 1924.
#corroborates(0.72) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1960