Economic interest alone did not produce full nativist ideology

Evidence

Above all, neither industrialists nor labor chieftains were in the full sense of the word nativist. Neither displayed much of a quality essential to a thoroughgoing xenophobia: an aroused and defensive nationalism. They approached immigration problems primarily in the guise of interested parties, and though their concern embraced the whole structure and future of American society, they indulged very little in florid appeals to national loyalty or survival. It was a short step from concrete anxieties about the social order to vaster beliefs that the nation itself stood in peril, but neither of the organized interests most directly affected by immigration blazed the way. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 305

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the thesis that nativism/enmity manufacture is ideological-rhetorical rather than a direct output of economic threat. — connects to: Economic structures are necessary but not sufficient to explain political and ideological features; The economic level is necessary but not sufficient to explain politics and ideology. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 621; Economic change does not directly supply the content of capitalist ideas

Broader Connections

• Economic structures are necessary but not sufficient to explain political and ideological features #corroborates (0.85)
• The economic level is necessary but not sufficient to explain politics and ideology. #corroborates (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 621
• Economic change does not directly supply the content of capitalist ideas #expands (0.75)