nativity
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By the 1840s, anti-Catholic nativists insisted that the foreign-born should likewise be excluded, or at least compelled to wait longer than the customary five years of residency before earning voting rights.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Some of the continuities that I identified in the book that we see in different forms today involve that old tension in American life between nativists and immigrants.
From Salon • Oct. 24, 2022
The nativists, the inclusionists and the “first you must experience this”-ists all had their say.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2017
Contemporary critics who claimed that Meagher had a remarkable knack for giving stirring speeches and then disappearing from the front lines are dismissed as British propagandists or anti-Irish nativists.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2016
The suggestions of the nativists that paupers and criminals be excluded from immigration were not embodied into law.
From Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making by Orth, Samuel Peter
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