Religious anti-Catholic feeling only becomes nativistic when Catholics seem foreign agents

Evidence

Anti-Catholicism has become truly nativistic, however, and has reached maximum intensity, only when the Church’s adherents seemed dangerously foreign agents in the national life. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 32

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Direct support for the claim in ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ and the reader’s whole research thread that manufactured-enemy solidarity operates when the out-group is framed as foreign agents infiltrating the national body — a pattern visible from anti-Catholic nativism through racial nativism.
• XREF: connects to: Anti-Catholicism became nativist only when Catholics seemed foreign agents.

Broader Connections

• Anti-Catholicism became nativist only when Catholics seemed foreign agents. #corroborates (1.00)