One opposed to immigration

Usage examples of nativist.

Bryan picked up and reunited a good deal of the Protestant nativist tradition of the American Party or Rnow-Nothings, which had collapsed when their Northern and Southern wings split in the run-up to the Civil War.

Ordinarily she worked against a background of nativist stereo music, the kind of stuff that sounded like mountain streams and windblown forests set to drums and chants.

Sometimes the anger was deflected into racial hatred for blacks, religious warfare against Catholics, nativist fury against immigrants.

Chabon has created a purely nativist folktale that does not repudiate popular culture but ennobles it.

Who wants to be called an isolationist or a nativist by the corporate Right, and a racist or a bigot by the multicultural Left?

The entire debate about outsourcing, for example, would take a dramatically different and perhaps less nativist tone if American workers had an adequate safety net to fall back on.

It was shared to a degree by the Southerner Wood-row Wilson, and was continued in rabid form by Southern anti-Semitic nativists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries like Governor Tom Watson of Georgia.