Nativist ideas resurface faster because prior foundations persist submerged

Evidence

Of course, the complacent mood of the age of confidence never entirely returned. Clocks did not turn back. The crisis of the eighties and the strains of the nineties left a heritage of policies and ideas that were submerged but not dissolved. In the twentieth century those policies and ideas could reappear more easily and swiftly because their foundation rested in the nineteenth. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 647

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the reader’s prediction about what happens when threat disappears: the solidarity decays but deposits a residue that makes re-arming cheap — path-dependence in manufactured enmity. — connects to: Nativism persisted beyond its anti-radical phase and assumed evolving new forms — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1399; Persistent ethnocentric judgments provide the subsoil in which nativism later grows — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 149; Nativist fears persist in stunted form rather than vanish when dormant — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 170 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Nativist fears persist in stunted form rather than vanish when dormant #corroborates (0.92) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 170
• Persistent ethnocentric judgments provide the subsoil in which nativism later grows #corroborates (0.90) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 149
• Contact with foreigners plus environmental explanation of poverty dissolved nativist belief #qualifies (0.82) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 700
• Individuality advances through metamorphoses where new formation still carries the past #corroborates (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1311
• Original thought can also inherit a prior heritage #expands (0.75)
• Elementary foundational ideas grow into political pillars through innumerable repetition #expands (0.72) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 651
• People stretch old frameworks to fit new phenomena rather than abandon them #complicates (0.70)