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Northern Nativism: The Failure Of National Identity

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I agree with so much of what you said in your post! I especially agree with the point you made about northern nativism not really developing until the south gave it a reason to. That 's so true and I honestly hadn 't even thought about like that. I also think that there were a lot of questions over American national identity and it was voiced most hysterically when the rise of sectional prejudices cast doubt on the unity of native America itself. Nativism provided a means of preserving a sense of national identity at a time when social harmony and even the union itself were threatened by an apparent failure of democracy to meet the challenge of social and economic change. I also agree with what you said about John Calhoun 's argument in

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