Read Professor Schrag’s views on why the Native Flag, especially its front-page engraving, offers new insight into how Philadelphia nativists understood themselves and their opponents in 1844, the year of the city’s nativist riots, on the Library Company blog.

Americans have a history of doing stupid shit like banning immigrants from enjoying schooling and worshiping in their own language despite the fact that that language has been part of American heritage for three hundred years...

It’s Separatists (left) vs. Nativists (right) in the world of AoS, and neither side is playing nice.

@Regrann from @roni_rone_tyronleung - "European descendant's exalting patriotism" #nativists #knownothingparty #1828definitionofamerican #antiimmigration #nativeamerican #native #local #bornhere #americanimmigrant #unitedstatescitizen #firstclasscitizen #republicanparty #knownothingism - #regrann

“fascism, nativism, anti-intellectualism, persecution of unpopular minorities, exaltation of the mediocre, and romantic exaggeration of the wisdom and virtue of the masses,” and the Know-Nothings were a classic example of these pathologies run amok.

http://www.latinorebels.com/2013/04/21/the-bilingual-tide-ad-that-is-pissing-off-the-nativists/

You have got to be kidding us. The following bilingual ad by TIDE, which launched last fall and which recently aired CNN, has now become a online nativist symbol of all that is “wrong” about the United States.