Southern and western race-feelings diffused nationwide to shape immigration views
Evidence
If new doctrines spread gradually beyond an eastern elite, the mass sentiments of the West and South found an increasingly sympathetic response in the rest of the country. No part of the United States was immune to the spirit of white supremacy; in all sections native-born and northern European laborers called themselves “white men” to distinguish themselves from the southern Europeans whom they worked beside. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1033
Categorization
- XREF: Contradicts a pure elite-diffusion model of ideology; relevant to reader’s interest in how a manufactured enemy category propagates through a population. — connects to: Southern congressmen framed southern European immigrants as racially impure — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 984; A new nationalism rechanneled existing race feelings onto immigrant targets — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1012; Xenophobia and racial hatred rest on different structures of feeling — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1389 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- A new nationalism rechanneled existing race feelings onto immigrant targets
#corroborates(0.95) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1012 - Race’s meaning shifts with prevailing social conditions across regions
#expands(0.80) - Xenophobia and racial hatred rest on different structures of feeling
#qualifies(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1389 - Racisms hybridize across racialized groups rather than staying within fixed boundaries
#expands(0.75) - Frame-shifting immigration to central national problems lent anti-immigrant feeling intellectual respectability.
#responds-to(0.70) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 228