Bear Stearns wrote:Nea Byzantia wrote:I'm not necessarily opposed to it. But America is not a Nation as it once was.
John Jay in The Federalist PapersWith equal pleasure I have as often taken notice, that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country, to one united people; a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established their general Liberty and Independence.
American population growth from 1776 to the 1880s was almost entirely through natural births. The "nation of immigrants" meme really didn't exist until the 1910s. It'd be more accurate to call America a nation of immigration restrictionists who have had various periods where immigration was more open.
>> when 1780s America didn't descend from the same ancestors
>> or speak the same language
>> or profess the same religion
>> or were attached to the same principles of government
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