Nativism persisted beyond its anti-radical phase and assumed evolving new forms

Evidence

Nothing occurred in 1920 to destroy the ongoing force of 100 per cent Americanism. In spy-hunting and in Red-hunting it assumed only the first of its evolving forms. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1399

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the reader’s research question about whether manufactured external threats decay or regenerate a successor—Higham argues the anti-radical phase was only the first evolving form, implying the enemy category persists and re-targets.
• XREF: connects to: Persistent ethnocentric judgments provide the subsoil in which nativism later grows — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 149; Anti-Semitic nativism survived and grew once its anti-radical trigger faded — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1694; Nativism abandoned ideological conversion for permanent racial exclusion once radical threat dissolved — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1580 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Semitic nativism survived and grew once its anti-radical trigger faded #exemplifies (0.95) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1694
• Nativism abandoned ideological conversion for permanent racial exclusion once radical threat dissolved #expands (0.90) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1580
• Persistent ethnocentric judgments provide the subsoil in which nativism later grows #corroborates (0.85) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 149
• Nativist ideas resurface faster because prior foundations persist submerged #corroborates (0.80) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 647