Reformers, not conservatives, first turned anxiety about urban crisis into anti-immigrant feeling.

Evidence

On the whole, therefore, reformers and humanitarians discovered an immigration problem somewhat sooner than did conservative spokesmen. The latter had a vested interest in complacency; the former faced the crisis of the eighties early and with alarm. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 223

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the reader’s research: manufactures-of-enemy narratives often claim reactionary elites lead; here progressive humanitarians pioneered the scapegoating. Echoes Frankfurt finding that unconscious anti-immigrant sentiment can wear a reformist/egalitarian costume — prediction vs. measured bias divergence. — connects to: Anti-immigrant hostility resurfaced first among humanitarian reformers, not conservatives. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 209

Broader Connections

• Anti-immigrant hostility resurfaced first among humanitarian reformers, not conservatives. #corroborates (1.00) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 209