Internal race-fear and external military threat fed each other on the West Coast

Evidence

As a result the West Coast felt a double sense of crisis: added to an internal fear of Japanese blood was an external fear of Japanese power. One exacerbated the other. From 1905 on, war scares recurrently agitated the Pacific states, and California nativists commonly looked upon Japanese immigration as a quasi-military invasion of soldiers and spies. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1027

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels how a perceived external geopolitical foe amplifies an internal outgroup category; resonates with reader’s interest in threat-hardened belief and escalation loops. — connects to: Economic upheaval and war threats inflate perceived competition between groups — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1505; Each community’s insecurity targets the other as the threat

Broader Connections

• Each community’s insecurity targets the other as the threat #exemplifies (0.78)
• Economic upheaval and war threats inflate perceived competition between groups #expands (0.72) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1505