There is this cycle of kind of nativist hysteria that is very profitable for politicians.
The immigrant issue gave Republicans, and many nativist Democrats, an air of hypocrisy and even bigotry.
Sadly, in state after state, nativist sentiment beats out economic sense time and time again.
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The nativist wing of the party is not just politically inconvenient, it is morally and economically wrong.
The Republicans have become fat, lazy and too many show signs of going over to the nativist nut wing.
The Republican Party's nativist rejection of immigration reform has clearly cost it dear.
Mr McCain is not one of the main stirrers, but nor has he sought to calm the nativist passions.
And the Swiss vote will certainly give heart to politicians in Italy who are resisting mosques in frankly nativist terms.
Finally, the PVV benefits from the fact that, uniquely in Europe, the Dutch are receptive to a non-nativist rejection of Islam.
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Since the immigration debate has such a nativist tone, however, Democrats are doubtful that Republicans can win over many Hispanic voters.
The latter is important: it suggests that he is willing to take on the wrath of the nativist right of his party.
Others argued that the shootings revealed the growing menace of nativist rhetoric.
People freak out about having to press 'one for English' and the nativist fringe even thinks the country is being 'colonized' by Latinos.
The state is home to an array of nativist groups, and its legislature has passed perhaps the harshest anti-immigrant laws in the country.
On the right, nativist voices in last year's primary campaign gave birth to phrases such as "electric fence" (Herman Cain), "self-deportation" (Mitt Romney) and other nuggets that turned Hispanic voters off.
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La Familia, despite its nativist, puro michoacano self-defense rhetoric, had vast amounts of drugs it needed to move to the U.S., which meant negotiating passage rights through the territories of groups to the north.
John McCain, the Republican candidate last time and a senator from Arizona, thinks that Latinos are up for grabs in these states and even in his own, if Republicans will just change their nativist tone.
Mr Thackeray - his father anglicised his surname after William Makepeace Thackeray, English author of Vanity Fair - ran the nativist Shiv Sena party which excelled in populism and xenophobia over four decades.
This, too, is an implicit part of the political appeal for many Republicans, who are secretly aghast at the nativist tone of recent presidential-primary debates and know they must reach out to Latinos in coming elections.
As the issue of illegal immigration was taken up by conservatives with increasing ardency, Giuliani was reminded of the nativist Know-Nothing movement of the nineteenth century, whose adherents sought to repel the tide of mostly Catholic European immigration.
The Republicans' nativist wing is hotly opposed to the bill because it allows the estimated 12m illegal aliens already in the United States to become legal straightaway, and offers them a path (albeit a long one) to citizenship.
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Some groups pushing the restrictionist agenda -- such as NUMBERS USA, the Federation for American Immigration Reform and the Center for Immigration Studies, all of them started with the help of nativist John Tanton -- want to limit legal immigration as well.
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Speaking of medicine, let's hope now that Republicans have had a strong dose of their own, and having been subjected to this line of attack, they've learned a lesson and will think twice before engaging in nativist shenanigans in the immigration debate.
In a short and sweet post at Psychology Today, Scott James, author of An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics (and a friend of mine from grad school) offers a summary of the contemporary moral nativist view inspired by Noam Chomsky and John Rawls.
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