section_heading: Protuirsko domorodstvo u 19. stoljeću
paragraph_text: The Nativists went public in 1854 when they formed the 'American Party', which was especially hostile to Catholics and campaigned for laws to require longer wait time between immigration and naturalization. (The laws never passed.) It was at this time that the term "nativist" first appears, opponents denounced them as "bigoted nativists." Former President Millard Fillmore ran on the American Party ticket for the Presidency in 1856. The American Party also included many ex-Whigs who ignored nativism, and included (in the South) a few Catholics whose families had long lived in America. Conversely, much of the opposition to Catholics came from Protestant Irish immigrants and German Lutheran immigrants who were not native at all and can hardly be called "nativists."<ref>Anbinder, Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the politics of the 1850s