<div dir="ltr">Dear Burkelers:<div><br></div><div>I'm working on a paper on Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric and I have a question: When was the last time a presidential candidate for a major American political party ran on a nativist platform? I assume during the 1890-1920 period of anti-European sentiment or the late-19th century anti-Chinese policies there were some major party candidates who used anti-immigrant rhetoric. Or did McCarthyism support anti-immigrant sentiment, or the opposite (to help those behind the Iron Curtain)?</div><div><br></div><div>In my lifetime I don't recall such a nativist candidate. (Wallace in 1972 was racist, but he wasn't representing a major party.)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Clarke<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Dr. Clarke Rountree<br>Chair and Professor of Communication Arts<br>342 Morton Hall<br>University of Alabama in Huntsville<br>Huntsville, ALĀ 35899<br>256-824-6646<br><a href="mailto:clarke.rountree@uah.edu" target="_blank">clarke.rountree@uah.edu</a></div>
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