Nativism’s first fulminant era ended without its prophets foreseeing it

Evidence

With assurance unshaken, the Immigration Restriction League and its allies looked forward to confronting a more sympathetic President with similar legislation in the following year. How could they know that an era in the history of nativism was coming to an end? How could they know that sixteen years would pass before another Congress submitted to another President the proposal which Edward Bemis had devised? — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 623

Categorization

• XREF: Evidence that enemy-driven movements end for contingent reasons (economy, war, political alignment) — not from internal correction — feeding the reader’s question of whether threat-solidarity decays or is re-manufactured. — connects to: Nativism’s victory in 1924 threatened its own survival by removing its threat — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1952

Broader Connections

• Nativism’s victory in 1924 threatened its own survival by removing its threat #qualifies (0.82) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1952