Anti-Catholic and anti-radical nativism shared the root charge of foreign disloyalty.

Evidence

While agitated Protestants regarded the immigrant as yoked to religious despotism, timid conservatives sometimes found him prone to political revolution. Despite inconsistencies between the two charges of submissiveness to tyranny and abandonment to discontent, anti-Catholic and anti-radical nativism agreed in a cardinal assumption: the European’s disloyalty strikes directly at republican freedom. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 44

Categorization

• XREF: The elasticity of the enemy category to hold contradictory accusations parallels patterns the reader likely sees in manufactured threats generally (fear of Muslims as both disloyal and threatening); supports the thesis that enemy constructs are structural, not evidence-driven. — connects to: Anti-Catholic and anti-radical nativism shared one core assumption of immigrant disloyalty; Anti-Catholic and anti-radical nativism shared a cardinal loyalty assumption. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 44; Anti-Catholicism became nativist only when Catholics seemed foreign agents. (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Catholic and anti-radical nativism shared one core assumption of immigrant disloyalty #corroborates (0.95)
• Anti-Catholic and anti-radical nativism shared a cardinal loyalty assumption. #corroborates (0.90) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 44
• Anti-Catholicism became nativist only when Catholics seemed foreign agents. #expands (0.75)
• Anti-Catholic nativists framed parochial schools as threats to national loyalty #exemplifies (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 303