Racial nationalism first energized expansionists, not nativists

Evidence

In popular thought and emotion, this idea found an initial outlet not among nativists but among expansionists. Many an American, during the annexation of Texas and California, saw himself in the role of his conquering ancestors, executing a racial mandate to enlarge the area of freedom. … Nativists, on the other hand, touched on this idea only very rarely and very lightly. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 67

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the reader’s thesis that racialization is a transitional channel for the manufactured-enemy category rather than its fixed endpoint — Anglo-Saxonist race-thinking began as expansion doctrine before nativism absorbed it. — connects to: A new nationalism rechanneled existing race feelings onto immigrant targets — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1012; Racial nativism began as a defensive swing requiring no new intellectual input — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 804; American nativism racialized over time rather than starting as racism — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 2003 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• A new nationalism rechanneled existing race feelings onto immigrant targets #qualifies (0.80) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1012
• American nativism racialized over time rather than starting as racism #corroborates (0.80) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 2003
• Racial nativism began as a defensive swing requiring no new intellectual input #qualifies (0.75) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 804
• Nativism abandoned ideological conversion for permanent racial exclusion once radical threat dissolved #qualifies (0.75) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1580