Isolated baymen harbored hostile ethnic stereotypes of New Yorkers

Evidence

Distrusting anyone “from away,” the baymen distrusted especially anyone from New York. Hating the city—many boasted that they had never been there—they feared that its “foreigners,” hordes of long-haired Slavs, hook-nosed Jews and unwashed Irishmen, would descend on and befoul their beautiful beaches at the first slackening in their vigilance. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 646

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ / moral-panic lineage has sibling resonance: the baymen’s ethnic caricature of city ‘foreigners’ as befouling their beaches parallels racialized scapegoating frames.
• XREF: connects to: Anti-immigrant hostility in the 1880s targeted culture, not subversiveness or unassimilability — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 391; Hostility toward a group comes first and negative stereotypes follow to justify it; Long Island’s shoreline was effectively closed to ordinary New Yorkers by 1900 — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 668

Broader Connections

• Hostility toward a group comes first and negative stereotypes follow to justify it #complicates (0.78)
• Anti-immigrant hostility in the 1880s targeted culture, not subversiveness or unassimilability #qualifies (0.72) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 391
• Long Island’s shoreline was effectively closed to ordinary New Yorkers by 1900 #exemplifies (0.72) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 668