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Nativism is bad for your health, says Joe Conason, at Salon.
Cover the health care of everyone, undocumented workers included « Dating Jesus 2009
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Nativism is not about your ancestors, it’s not about your genetics, it’s about your culture, traditions.
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Ever since the alien and sedition laws, cry had been raised at intervals against the too easy attainment of citizenship by the unnumbered immigrants thronging to our shores, and agitation raised, more or less successful, to thrust forward "Nativism" or Americanism, with opposition to the
History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880
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Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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In his writings, though … he strenuously objected to Nativism, supported free-market capitalism, and stressed enlightenment-era ideals over the bible as a source of law.
Think Progress » The Party of Lincoln falls short on civil rights. 2010
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From “The New Nativism,” in the October 2005 edition of the American Prospect:
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Nativism, intellectual bankruptcy and self-delusion go hand-in-hand in what passes for intelligent economic discourse in right-wing circles in America these days.
David Coates: The Strengths and Weaknesses of American Exceptionalism David Coates 2011
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Rather, it's that their mix of racial, ethnic, and religious animus has found mainstream expression thanks to the perverse Imperial Nativism that's overrun the GOP in its current configuration.
Zaki Hasan: The Right Wing's Sharia Shenanigans Zaki Hasan 2010
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Rather, it's that their mix of racial, ethnic, and religious animus has found mainstream expression thanks to the perverse Imperial Nativism that's overrun the GOP in its current configuration.
Zaki Hasan: The Right Wing's Sharia Shenanigans Zaki Hasan 2010
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