Klan redirected farmers’ economic fury into socially acceptable aggression

Evidence

Night-riding of a different kind flourished within the Klan, and it seems hardly doubtful that the organization diverted farmers’ economic frustrations into more socially acceptable types of aggression. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1746

Categorization

• XREF: Direct example for the bias-manufacture mechanism: economic grievance gets channeled into a sanctioned enemy rather than staying economic. — connects to: Farmers’ agrarian distress indirectly heightened urban anti-immigrant tension. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 220; Frustrated aggression toward authority gets redirected onto marginalized groups — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 562

Broader Connections

• Frustrated aggression toward authority gets redirected onto marginalized groups #expands (0.82) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 562
• Farmers’ agrarian distress indirectly heightened urban anti-immigrant tension. #expands (0.78) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 220