Northern white Baptist women feared southern and eastern European immigrants clustered in eastern cities.

Evidence

In addition to fears of potential race warfare in the distant South were fears of upheaval from immigrant groups at their own doorstep. Replete in the writings, minutes, and speeches of northern white Baptist women in the late nineteenth century was anxiety over demographic changes in the North itself, and specifically over the increasing number of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe who, instead of moving to the Far West, “linger in the sea board or more eastern cities, adding to the idle and more dangerous classes.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 530

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Prejudice toward groups rises with their local prevalence when fear drives it. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 310

Broader Connections

• Prejudice toward groups rises with their local prevalence when fear drives it. #exemplifies (0.78) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 310