Pre-existing white-supremacy folkways, projected onto new immigrants, powered southern and western nativism

Evidence

The South and the Pacific Coast alike thought of themselves as a “white man’s country.” They had long struggled—in different degrees and in different ways—to maintain white supremacy, often without the aid of a systematic ideology. From Seattle to Savannah primitive racefeelings, wrought deeply in the American character, flourished as nowhere else in the United States. Projected on the new immigration, these ancient feelings gave southern and western nativism its peculiar energy. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 989

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s research question about whether the enemy is manufactured or primordial — here White supremacy as a pre-existing folk frame gets transferred to new targets, supporting a category-first model. — connects to: Jewish poverty in a new immigrant wave intensified White Protestant nativism; A new nationalism rechanneled existing race feelings onto immigrant targets — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1012; European immigrants earned whiteness by adopting anti-nonwhite antagonism (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• A new nationalism rechanneled existing race feelings onto immigrant targets #corroborates (0.88) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1012
• Jewish poverty in a new immigrant wave intensified White Protestant nativism #exemplifies (0.85)
• Racist ideologies often originate outside the white elite and are organic to nonelite communities #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3619
• European immigrants earned whiteness by adopting anti-nonwhite antagonism #qualifies (0.72)
• Race-thinking emerged across the West before it hardened into racist ideology #corroborates (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 431