How politically successful were nativists in the 1850s?

The Native American Party, renamed the American Party in 1855 and commonly known as the Know Nothing movement, was an American nativist political party that operated nationally in the mid-1850s. ... In the South, the party did not emphasize anti-Catholicism, but was the main alternative to the dominant Democratic Party.

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