Word: nativistic
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...April-Agro controversy has also been clouded with a nativist suspicion of Demel and his new methods. Claridad, official newspaper of the pro-independence Puerto Rican Socialist Party, refers to Demel as the "Jew Cuban," and local planters refer to April-Agro as "the Israelis." The English-language San Juan Star, in urging the Governor to delay action against the experimental farm, pointed to "a deep-seated resentment against 'outside' farmers changing the way agriculture has been traditionally carried out." Hernndez-Coln has stayed out of the dispute while his agriculture secretary attempts to negotiate a "painless" takeover...
...shameful pedigree” within American history, the Blaine language’s usage today—to block judicially and on a state level a multitude of programs made to benefit the urban poor—has disturbing parallels with America’s nativist past...
...initially applauded in the West, especially when the Russians were among its early victims, was not unrelated to the defensive mimicry. There was something humiliating about the pandering to foreign opinion and the abject way in which native traditions were discarded as old junk. A nativist reaction was bound to come. It always does. In fact, it was already beginning during those early years of intense imitation...
...sensationalist press was in lurid bloom. The Know-Nothing party flourished on nativist paranoias and disgust with immigrants. In a prose tract called "The Eighteenth Presidency!", Whitman referred to politicians as "pimps," "excrement," and "serpentine men." Slavery had the sanction...