Civil War enlistment crushed prewar anti-immigrant nativism

Evidence

One ended in glory while the other expired in neglect, but the death of Irishmen at the Battle of Fredericksburg and the death of the O.U.A. on the home front were connected and symptomatic. All over the country foreign-born Americans flocked to the colors. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 77

Categorization

• XREF: The shared-enemy mechanism in reverse: common military cause (Irish fighting for Union) deflated manufactured internal enemies — directly relevant to the reader’s question of what sustains vs. dissolves manufactured group solidarity and enmity. — connects to: Civil War nationalism displaced nativism by supplying shared enmity and economic bonds. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 86; A common enemy war dissolved organized anti-immigrant nativism. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 79; Black Civil War service marked blacks as loyal Americans unlike other ‘foreigners’ — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 540 (+2 more)