Post-1960s ethnic tension persists without a revival of nativist ideology.

Evidence

Today we are similarly perplexed to know what has become of the liberal nationalism that reached its finest hour in the civil rights movement of the early 1960s. Although ethno-racial tensions are widespread and in some ways growing, no revival of a nativist or racist ideology has replaced the fading liberal orthodoxy … Are we witnessing an approaching end of nation-building itself? — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 2045

Categorization

• XREF: Higham observes rising ethno-racial tension absent an organizing nativist creed — bears on reader’s question of whether ideology or conditions regenerate the manufactured enemy.
• QUESTION: This unresolved puzzle from 1986 (rising tension, no nativist ideology) invites testing against the present resurgence.