Labor upheaval reanimated dormant nativist traditions, with racial nativism last.

Evidence

Nativism, as a significant force in modern America, dates from that labor upheaval. At a time when monopoly and plutocracy cast darkening shadows over the summits of American society and when opportunity to escape westward seemed to be diminishing, unrest in the depths took on redoubled meaning. Each of the historic traditions of American nativism—submerged for a generation—came to life. Among the three fears, of European radicals, European religion, and Furopean races, the last enjoyed the smallest vogue. Still the stepchild among American nativisms, the Anglo-Saxon tradition evolved within an intellectual elite whose separate story belongs in a later chapter. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 313

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s hypothesis that racial nativism is a later transitional form, not a fixed endpoint — anti-radical and anti-Catholic fears precede and dominate it in the 1880s. — connects to: American nativism racialized over time rather than starting as racism — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 2003

Broader Connections

• American nativism racialized over time rather than starting as racism #expands (0.90) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 2003