Klan growth depended on a confluence of postwar anxieties, not primeval hatred alone

Evidence

The whole complex of factors—depression, prohibition, and immigration; disillusion, isolationism, and reaction—that shunted 100 per cent Americanism into the older nativistic channels contributed to the Klan’s growth. Never before had a single society gathered up so many hatreds or given vent to an inwardriess so thoroughgoing. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1744

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the reader’s manufactured-enemy thesis: a single fraternal order aggregated many distinct anxieties (economic, moral, demographic, political), showing the constructed, conjunctural nature of the threat. — connects to: Wartime conformity demands persisted into peace and drove postwar xenophobia — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1323; Racial ideology grew from status anxiety, not empirical perception of threat — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 195; Suspended ethnic hatreds revived rather than being consumed by war — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1605 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Wartime conformity demands persisted into peace and drove postwar xenophobia #corroborates (0.75) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1323
• Suspended ethnic hatreds revived rather than being consumed by war #expands (0.75) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1605
• Racial ideology grew from status anxiety, not empirical perception of threat #corroborates (0.72) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 195