Civil War nationalism displaced nativism by supplying shared enmity and economic bonds.
Evidence
While nativism withered, nationalism flourished. … In addition to the psychological bonds of a common enmity, the war forged between American ethnic groups the ties of a common economic need. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 86
Categorization
- XREF: Core to the reader’s interest: what displaces a manufactured enemy. Here the answer is a bigger real enemy plus a common economic project — supporting the view that the ‘enemy’ category is fungible and transitory, not ethnically fixed. — connects to: A common enemy war dissolved organized anti-immigrant nativism. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 79; Civil War enlistment crushed prewar anti-immigrant nativism — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 77; Nativism is a distinct phenomenon, a defensive nationalism of perceived national crisis — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 971 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- A common enemy war dissolved organized anti-immigrant nativism.
#corroborates(0.95) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 79 - Civil War enlistment crushed prewar anti-immigrant nativism
#corroborates(0.90) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 77 - Class cleavage, like sectional strife, triggered unifying nationalist nativism
#contradicts(0.80) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 309 - Nativism is a distinct phenomenon, a defensive nationalism of perceived national crisis
#qualifies(0.75) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 971 - English nationalism displaced international class solidarity among workers after 1850.
#expands(0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 265 - Shared cultural identity dampens conflict between divided-nation rivals
#corroborates(0.72) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 592