War against a common external enemy dissolved organized nativism by uniting rival groups

Evidence

The war completed the ruin of organized nativism by absorbing xenophobes and immigrants in a common cause. Now the foreigner had a new prestige; he was a comrade-at-arms. The clash that alienated sections reconciled their component nationalities. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 80

Categorization

• XREF: Directly speaks to the reader’s central hypothesis: group solidarity forged by common enmity absorbs previously targeted out-groups when a larger external enemy appears. Mirrors the manufactured-enemy framework elsewhere in the reader’s library. — connects to: Nativism targets internal minorities for their foreign connections — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 27; The main nativist association collapsed financially and organizationally in the Civil War — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 76; A common enemy war dissolved organized anti-immigrant nativism. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 79 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• A common enemy war dissolved organized anti-immigrant nativism. #corroborates (1.00) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 79
• Civil War nationalism displaced nativism by supplying shared enmity and economic bonds. #exemplifies (0.90) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 86
• Selfhood and national unity are forged through conflict with a common foe #expands (0.85) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 1194
• International conflict generates nativism only when the minority links to the enemy power #qualifies (0.80) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 114
• The perceived permanent Enemy binds pluralist societies into cohesive defense societies #expands (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 235
• Nativism’s ideological enemies got remade as biologically fixed racial ones #complicates (0.75) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1580