Anti-immigrant hostility resurfaced first among humanitarian reformers, not conservatives.

Evidence

In 1882 a writer in the Atlantic Monthly predicted in ominous tones the coming of a great struggle for the preservation of the American social and economic order. During the course of various reflections on urban poverty and industrial discontent the author turned aside at one or two points to assail the European immigrant with a bluntness and sweep perhaps unknown in a general magazine for a generation. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 209

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reformers, not conservatives, first turned anxiety about urban crisis into anti-immigrant feeling. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 223; Early hostility to new immigrants was cultural contempt, not nativism — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 391; Novel immigrant groups had no nativist tradition, so raw hostility escalated freely — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 516 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Novel immigrant groups had no nativist tradition, so raw hostility escalated freely #complicates (0.80) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 516
• Late-century immigrant resentment was primarily class hatred, not ethnic feeling #complicates (0.80) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 275
• Anti-immigrant hostility in the 1880s targeted culture, not subversiveness or unassimilability #corroborates (0.80) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 391
• Early hostility to new immigrants was cultural contempt, not nativism #corroborates (0.75) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 391