Anti-Catholic nativism required a specific religious crisis beyond general economic tension

Evidence

Along with this common basis in class cleavage, however, Protestant nativism had its own specific roots in religious conflict. The religious factor lit the anti-Catholic movement with the flame of fanaticism. “I believe fully,” wrote one zealot, “that the Protestant will win, as God is on our side, and … it will be a victory, tho’ many a brave warrior may bite the dust… . | wish I could with the brave cohorts of Jesus lead on to conquer, or under his bloodstained banner die. ‘I’were a death most gladly to be hailed.” °° Anti-Catholic nativism might have amounted to little if, on top of the general crisis of the eighties, a crisis in Protestant-Catholic relations had not supervened. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 352

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Economic distress was redirected into anti-Catholic conspiracy rather than class conflict. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 486; Anti-Catholic panic surged across the South and Midwest by 1920 — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1760; Religious nationalism intensifies during social crises regardless of demographic religious decline — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 197 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Religious nationalism intensifies during social crises regardless of demographic religious decline #qualifies (0.75) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 197
• Protestant nativism reinvigorated where Catholicism clashed with American liberty ideals. #qualifies (0.72) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 38