Anti-foreign fears persist in contained form instead of being eliminated
Evidence
Instead of being liquidated, anti-foreign fears were simply contained. In a partial and stunted form each of the nativist themes maintained a peripheral place in American thought. Each of them, in fact, found some new or continuing area of sensitivity where it could fasten and feed. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 170
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: The most direct evidence for the reader’s central question: threat-hardened belief does not decay when the enemy disappears — it finds a new feeding area.
- SEED: Combining [149] and [170] gives a complete mechanism statement: fears are contained + find new areas to fasten + sit on persistent ethnocentric subsoil.
- XREF: connects to: Massive news revelations often leave stable foreign policy attitudes unchanged — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1587; Sustained terror normalizes precaution until fear becomes habit — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1583; Most people become temporarily more authoritarian when threat rises, then revert as threat fades — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 842 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Sustained terror normalizes precaution until fear becomes habit
#expands(0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1583 - Outbidders weaponize fear narratives while discounting deferred peace benefits.
#expands(0.80) — Cathy Gormley-Heenan and Roger Macginty, Ethnic Outbidding and Party…, 32 - Massive news revelations often leave stable foreign policy attitudes unchanged
#corroborates(0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1587 - Most people become temporarily more authoritarian when threat rises, then revert as threat fades
#complicates(0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 842