Nativistic

If not racist, it certainly sounded more than a little nativistic, which is odd coming from a candidate who argues that his international upbringing will enable him to better represent the US abroad. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sociologists have analyzed Prohibition as a war between a nativistic Protestant America and an immigrant Catholic one. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Clearly, our sensitivities to nativistic and racist overtones differ. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And that's creepy and nativistic (at best) to my ears. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dobeln writes: "Its depressing how nativistic nearly every segment of our society is." ❋ Unknown (2009)

When something happens that they can not do those things, people get anxious, angry, and often take their frustrations out in nativistic outbreaks of ethnic cleansing, rioting and social unrest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Its depressing how nativistic nearly every segment of our society is. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If the revolutionary socialists will not organize the atomized masses and workers ... the nationalists and nativistic fascists most certainly will. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Unfortunately, the nativistic impulse coupled with ignorance has a long tradition in this country. ❋ Stephen Retherford (2008)

We can either accept this with maturity and optimism, or sink back into nativistic myopia. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There is sometimes a nativistic or racist strain in the culture, which can appear in the use of Confederate symbolism. ❋ Jeremy Iversen (2006)

Efforts were made to eradicate all Western influences from Japanese life and culture and to indoctrinate the people in traditional, nativistic values. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Carried from the Mescalero and Lipan Apache to the Kiowa, and from the Kiowa to the Comanche, the cactus had become the basis of a visionary nativistic religion, legally organized as the Native American Church. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)

General Council, especially among its nativistic representatives, will control also the new church-body. ❋ Unknown (1894)

Racist and nativistic comments are often heard at ballparks. ❋ Unknown (2011)

South Carolina - have framed immigration reform and the need to ease certain restrictions as a pro-business move that would help the labor force, there's been a shift to what McDermott calls "a more nativistic stance." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Selling nativistic policy reform also requires that Canadians understand that our system is too open and subject to abuse. ❋ WILLY (2010)

If my father was still alive today I truly believe that he would look at this Harper government and the nativistic changes that Kenny is proposing to immigration and call them out for who and what they are. ❋ WILLY (2010)

Memories of Comanches stirred horror and awe in twentieth-century Americans like Webb - not because they conjured up impressions of imperial-scale power but because they evoked images of nativistic resistance and mindless, primitive violence. ❋ Unknown (2009)