nativism
noun
na·tiv·ism
ˈnā-ti-ˌvi-zəm 
1
: a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants
2
: the revival or perpetuation of an indigenous culture especially in opposition to acculturation
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The Republicans, in thrall to former and perhaps future president Donald Trump, have embraced his illiberal nationalism, his protectionist zeal and his anti-migrant nativism.
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Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
Johnson’s hatred of all non-Northern European peoples and his Pacific Northwest style of nativism—where an influential white supremacist movement in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho took root—went national.
—Devin E. Naar / Made By History, TIME, 9 July 2024
Over the last decade and a half, the widespread feeling that the United Kingdom was on its last legs was reflected in surging English nativism and Scottish, Welsh, and Irish separatism that in different ways threatened to pull the union apart.
—Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2024
Local, not federal A second contrast between the earlier nativism and its later 19th century counterpart was the virtual absence of major national immigration legislation.
—Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 21 May 2024
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Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
Johnson’s hatred of all non-Northern European peoples and his Pacific Northwest style of nativism—where an influential white supremacist movement in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho took root—went national.
—Devin E. Naar / Made By History, TIME, 9 July 2024
Over the last decade and a half, the widespread feeling that the United Kingdom was on its last legs was reflected in surging English nativism and Scottish, Welsh, and Irish separatism that in different ways threatened to pull the union apart.
—Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2024
Local, not federal A second contrast between the earlier nativism and its later 19th century counterpart was the virtual absence of major national immigration legislation.
—Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 21 May 2024
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“Nativism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nativism. Accessed 11 Sep. 2024.
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