Americans perceived Mexican immigration as the primary cultural threat in 1990

Evidence

While Europeans see the immigration threat as Muslim or Arab, Americans see it as both Latin American and Asian but primarily as Mexican. When asked in 1990 from which countries the United States was admitting too many immigrants, a sample of Americans identified Mexico twice as often as any other, followed in order by Cuba, the Orient (nonspecific), South America and Latin America (nonspecific), Japan, Vietnam, China, and Korea. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 540

Categorization

• CANDY: A tidy ranking stat: Mexico at double any other country, with Japan and Korea surprisingly on the list.
• XREF: connects to: Americans widely perceived community bonds weakening by the 1990s. — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 59