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- noun Plural form of
nativist .
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Examples
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These so-called nativists aren't as strong as they used to be, but they remain a powerful force in the debate over immigration, for instance.
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These so-called nativists aren't as strong as they used to be, but they remain a powerful force in the debate over immigration, for instance.
Political Waves 2009
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More tired blather excoriating those of us who believe in the rule of law being applied to all, equally, as being "nativists".
Huckabee: I'm Against Illegal Immigration, But I'm Not A Lunatic About It 2009
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Of course, all the legal immigrants I know are "nativists" under that definition.
Fred's exit... Ann Althouse 2008
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It isn’t that they are necessarily pro-immigration (although a decent number of the corporate elites are, and you can feel free to be cynical about that), but it is the way in which the nativists are anti-immigration that is the problem.
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What models of honesty, justice, and truth you are, most distinguished "nativists"!
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What, therefore, can be more ungrateful, if not more unjust, in the "nativists," than to attempt to rob the poor emigrant of the rewards of his labor and merit, in order that they may enjoy all the fruit of the latter's toil?
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This is the height of ingratitude and injustice; a far more glaring instance of both than that of the _reputed_ forefathers of these "nativists" when they robbed the old Britons of their homes and of those liberties which they were _hired_ to defend.
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P.P.S. Where did the 'nativists' come from before they were 'nativists'?
Pajamas Media Ruben Navarrette Jr. 2010
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Credit: Woody Guthrie (composed 1940; recorded 1944; published 1951) racists "nativists" in AZ can't get into a debate about the "brown-skinned" illegals.
God is for Suckers! 2010
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