17 A similarity between Nativists of the 1800's and Southerners after the passage of Civil Rights legislation in the 1960's was that both saw minorities as a threat to their jobs immigrants and Blacks in society ruining their traditional way of life non-Christians destroying the moral fabric of America immigrants and blacks as overtaking whites in terms of population

17 A similarity between Nativists of the 1800's and Southerners after the passage of Civil Rights legislation in the 1960's was that both saw minorities as a threat to their jobs immigrants and Blacks in society ruining their traditional way of life non-Christians destroying the moral fabric of America immigrants and blacks as overtaking whites in terms of population