Pre-Civil War channels pre-shaped later American xenophobia

Evidence

The anti-Catholic, anti-radical, and Anglo-Saxon traditions had opened channels through which a large part of the xenophobia of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries would flow. The content and dynamics of that later story would come from social, economic, and intellectual changes unimagined in the days of the Know-Nothings. But the basic patterns were there. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 72

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the anti-Catholic tradition as one pre-existing channel that racial nativism later flowed through and transformed — feed into the reader’s interest in anti-Catholic nativism preceding racial nativism. — connects to: Imperial racist ideas re-imported into the US conditioned immigrant minds — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 752; Nativist fear of minorities surged only during major crises before the Civil War — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 71

Broader Connections

• Imperial racist ideas re-imported into the US conditioned immigrant minds #expands (0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 752