The order’s anti-Catholic and anti-radical stances all yielded to race fear

Evidence

While anti-Catholicism persisted as a distinctly subsidiary part of the order’s program, its former concentration on foreign radicals yielded to a primary fear of foreign races. Indeed, the organization echoed almost every theme in the racial polyphony. Its national chairman worried lest southern European immigrants should intermarry with Negroes, as in Latin America. The order’s California council affiliated with the Asiatic Exclusion League and announced that southern Europeans were semi-Mongolian. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1036

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the reader’s model that the solidarity-outgroup structure persists while the category’s content (religious, radical, racial) is transposed. — connects to: Racial nativism supplanted anti-Catholicism because it fit the new immigrant threat — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 567

Broader Connections

• Racial nativism supplanted anti-Catholicism because it fit the new immigrant threat #expands (0.85) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 567