Maryland Juice's GOP correspondent, Mr. Chairy, has been itching to bring back his favorite old segment: "word of the day." So, we decided to give him a guest column this week. Here goes!
Nativism favors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants....
Nativism typically means opposition to immigration or efforts to lower the political or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups because the groups are considered hostile or alien to the natural culture, and it is assumed that they cannot be assimilated....
In the United States, anti-immigration views have a long history....
...nativists objected primarily to Irish Roman Catholics because of their loyalty to the Pope and also because of their supposed rejection of republicanism as an American ideal.
Nativist movements included the Know Nothing or American Party of the 1850s, the Immigration Restriction League of the 1890s, the anti-Asian movements in the West, resulting in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the "Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907" by which Japan's government stopped emigration to the U.S. Labor unions were strong supporters of Chinese exclusion and limits on immigration, because of fears that they would lower wages and make it harder to organize unions....
Contemporary opponents of immigration blame it for such problems as unemployment, crime (especially through gangs), harm to the environment, and overwhelming social services such as hospitals, police.
We take issue with the fact that Mr. Chairy's entire column is copied from Wikipedia. Nevertheless, we understand he's riled up by today's breaking story on tuition rates at Montgomery College.
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