Anti-immigrant solidarity collapsed almost instantly when the anarchist threat faded

Evidence

Significant consequences of the new barrier to foreigners with disagreeable ideas still lay far in the future; by the end of the year the furor over anarchists had dissipated. The whole brief flurry of anti-immigrant feeling subsided just as swiftly. Confidence prevailed so widely in 1904. that even Lodge conceded the absence of a demand for an immigration plank in the Republican platform and agreed to its omission; it did not reappear until rgrz. In r904 also the outstanding sociologist William I. Thomas announced that race prejudice was easily dispelled and would in fact become insignificant as advances in communication brought human groups in closer contact with one another. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 660

Categorization

• XREF: Central to the reader’s research question: manufactured solidarity decays rapidly once the constructed enemy disappears — restrictionism vanished within a year and did not return until 1912. — connects to: Nativism can collapse even as the immigrant influx it fears soars — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 644; Racial restriction’s victory deflated the manufactured solidarity that had sustained it; The removal of economic threat deflated nativism regardless of rising immigration — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 618 (+4 more)
• QUESTION: If solidarity genuinely decays when the manufactured threat dissolves, that argues the enemy is the load-bearing element, not underlying prejudice — worth testing against the racial nativism that returns in force around 1912.

Broader Connections

• Racial restriction’s victory deflated the manufactured solidarity that had sustained it #corroborates (0.85)
• Nativism abandoned ideological conversion for permanent racial exclusion once radical threat dissolved #expands (0.82) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1580
• The removal of economic threat deflated nativism regardless of rising immigration #corroborates (0.78) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 618