International conflict generates nativism only when the minority links to the enemy power

Evidence

If indifference to domestic problems saved the foreign-born from some lines of attack, indifference to international problems saved them from others. Conflict between nations is, of course, a fruitful source of nativism when an internal minority is somehow connected with the hostile power. The first great wave of American nativism, in 1798, grew in large measure out of the internalization of an undeclared war with France; for much of the immigrant population on that occasion appeared pro-French. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 114

Categorization

• XREF: Provides the mechanism the reader is testing: an external enemy only becomes a domestic threat when an internal minority is ‘somehow connected’ to the hostile power. The 1798 Alien and Sedition precedent gives the earliest American instance of manufactured linkage. — connects to: Nativism targets internal minorities for their foreign connections — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 27; War against a common external enemy dissolved organized nativism by uniting rival groups — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 80; Nativism rises and falls with broader nationalist sentiment — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 28 (+2 more)
• SEED: Essay angle on the 1798 precedent as the origin case of enemy-construction: undeclared war plus an immigrant population ‘appearing’ pro-French drove the first nativist wave — a clean early exemplar of the manufactured-enemy pattern.

Broader Connections

• A shared enemy alone cannot constitute national unity #qualifies (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 532
• A common enemy war dissolved organized anti-immigrant nativism. #corroborates (0.75) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 79
• Nativism rises and falls with broader nationalist sentiment #qualifies (0.72) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 28