[CheyennePress]

Can anyone tell me when and where this term “nativist” came from? I guess I rather inappropriately don’t find it the least bit offensive.

[kinoxi]

Smear yourself with animal feces and vote dem?

[Paladin2]

Well, you’re probably a vigilante then. ;-)

[nativist]

Not sure but of course why should it be offensive. Native is not offensive so why should nativist.

[Hostage]

It’s a word carefully chosen not to incite anger.

In Think-Tank papers written for elite organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, writers always referred to people that oppose the New World Order as Xenophobes.

At the local level such as in a local liberal newspaper, people that oppose immigration reform are sometimes referred to as racists.

So here’s the breakdown:

Global -—> Xenophobe
National -—> Nativist
Local -—> Racist

The Aristocracy inside the beltway feel more comfortable calling those that oppose immigration reform as ‘nativists’ rather than the equivalents used at global and local levels.