War converted Americanization from cosmopolitan sympathy into coercive nationalist conformity.

Evidence

The war carried much further the shift from sympathy to fear, from cosmopolitan democracy to jealous nationalism, which had displayed itself in the preparedness period. In large measure the Americanizers were swept up in the current of 100 per cent Americanism. Most of them gave themselves over to more or less the whole range of 100 per cent ideas: the insistence on a conformist loyalty intolerant of any values not functional to it; the demand for a high sense of duty toward the nation; the faith in a drumfire of exhortation and propaganda to accomplish desired social objectives; and the ultimate reliance on coercion and punishment. In short, by threat and rhetoric 100 per cent Americanizers opened a frontal assault on foreign influence in American life. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1483

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s core question about whether manufactured external threat (the war) regenerates and hardens in-group solidarity against a constructed enemy — here the immigrant. — connects to: Coercive Americanization backfired, driving minorities into their own defensive nationalisms — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1531; Wartime fear converted progressive Americanizers into defenders of the economic status quo. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1501; War transformed Bosnian multiculturalism into Muslim nationalist dominance — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 744 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Coercive Americanization backfired, driving minorities into their own defensive nationalisms #expands (0.85) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1531
• War transformed Bosnian multiculturalism into Muslim nationalist dominance #exemplifies (0.80) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 744
• Wartime fear converted progressive Americanizers into defenders of the economic status quo. #qualifies (0.72) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1501