Nativist Run

Features

On this 3 minute roller coaster, a track turns through twists and rolls while a cart goes along it. Following the cart is demonized immigrants creating a fear aspect to the ride. There are three carts with space for four people in each cart. At first the coaster clickes up to approximately 70 feet in the air then falls down into a spiral until they come about 6 feet off the ground when they start to go back up to the loading dock but take a turn and go through a dark tunnel where voice lines like "Hey , we are gonna take your job" and "Our way is the right way" plays as if it is coming from the immigrants that the ride is being chased by. Finally the ride comes back to the surface and repeats these actions for the next group.

History

During the 1920s, Nativism was a big part of the national culture. This ride depicts foreigners and outsiders chasing the cart that the passengers sit in as they go extremely fast on a roller coaster track. This chase represents the fear of immigrants that led to heavy restrictions on all immigration, particularly southern and eastern europeans, in the time period.These nativist and racists movements were often queued by outside events such as the Sacco and Vanzetti trial or the scopes trial that introduced that foreign ideas could be a threat of public safety or traditional catholic beliefs. The catholic church spearheaded this movement in an attempt to save their power over the people, although other racist and radical organizations like the the second Ku Klux Klan which thrived in the 1920s because of all of the support focused towards this movement by the American people

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