HOW RACISM AFFECTED NATIVIST ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS
It is of a great lesson on noting down on the manner into which the nativists used the new racist’s concern majorly for preserving the nation’s Anglo Saxon heritage apparently for sounding an alarm on the number of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. Their capacity was attributed to being 80% of the total immigrants in the U.S. in the 1900 to 1910 decade. It is through Ellwood P. Cubberley from Stanford University, who echoed their concerns in his history education textbook and attributed to that, In this, he describes of the Southern and Eastern Europeans of being different from the rest as they are seen to be largely illiterate and so much more of their negativity and stating to that their coming in the nation have attributed to dilution of the national stock.
Although with a victory in 1924 by nativists with the passage of the immigration law by establishing quotas for the immigrants based on the country origin. It is through the quotas which ensured that the immigrants from the north of Europe, which were also termed as the Nordic type would be of the greatest percentage among the U.S. immigrants, which was a guideline which remained not unchanged for 40 years. With the attitude inscribed on the nativists towards racism, with the people of color who were of the greatest target by the nativists, other people were also severely affected by this. With the racist concern, they grew their attitude to preserving the nation’s Anglo Saxon heritage in a great manner.