Farmers’ agrarian distress indirectly heightened urban anti-immigrant tension.

Evidence

A parallel crisis impended in the rural West and South. It did not affect the immigrant’s status as obviously or as directly as the urban cleavage did, but indirectly the farmers’ anxieties heightened every tension in the cities. Ever since the Civil War the old sense of equality and opportunity had been slipping from the farmers’ grasp. Monopoly touched the rural producer first and touched him hardest. Declining farm prices and rising debts made the middleman’s grip all the more onerous, while the processes which piled up wealth in the cities ate away at the prestige of rural life. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 220

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Klan redirected farmers’ economic fury into socially acceptable aggression — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1746; Depression convinced many workers immigration threatened their livelihood — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 266; Marginalized native workers displaced by deindustrialization turn racism against immigrants — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3153

Broader Connections

• Depression convinced many workers immigration threatened their livelihood #expands (0.80) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 266
• Marginalized native workers displaced by deindustrialization turn racism against immigrants #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3153