Nativist menace arises only when faith in assimilation collapses

Evidence

In short, there was no pressing sense of the foreigner as a distinctively national menace. That could develop only with a loss of faith in the process of assimilation. In the postwar decades, nationalism was complacent and cosmopolitan. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 169

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nativist fears persist in stunted form rather than vanish when dormant — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 170; Nativism can collapse even as the immigrant influx it fears soars — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 644; Racial nativism matured only when public confidence recovered — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 762

Broader Connections

• Nativism can collapse even as the immigrant influx it fears soars #contradicts (0.85) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 644
• Racial nativism matured only when public confidence recovered #contradicts (0.80) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 762