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America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 9:00 pm
by BillB
Here's a great article by Pat Buchanan on what immigration is doing to the country.
It's well worth reading.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/america-no-l ... -1-people/
Re: America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 9:15 pm
by LibraryLady
Didn't read the article, but were we EVER 1 nation and 1 people?
Re: America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 9:17 pm
by planosteve
I donno. Buchannan sometimes makes sence and sometimes doesn't. Sometimes he's a mismash. Here he's a mismash.
Re: America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 9:46 pm
by GFB
LibraryLady wrote:Didn't read the article, but were we EVER 1 nation and 1 people?
Yes..people came to be Americans.
Re: America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:01 pm
by grouchy
LibraryLady wrote:Didn't read the article, but were we EVER 1 nation and 1 people?
No ma'am.
Re: America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:03 pm
by Bob Of Burleson
"We were not a nation of immigrants in 1789," Pat says in the WorldNetDaily op-ed piece.
I doubt that because the U.S. population of about 4 million included roughly 800,000 blacks, a large percentage of whom were born in Africa.
Then we had the Native Americans, who weren't immigrants but certainly weren't citizens. Another 10 or 20 percent?
Next carve a chunk out of the good old lily-white Anglo population because a big bunch of them were immigrants themselves, mostly from Great Britain.
Not a nation of immigrants. Hmmph.
Re: America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:04 pm
by BillB
LibraryLady wrote:Didn't read the article, but were we EVER 1 nation and 1 people?
In Federalist No. 2, John Jay wrote, “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. … ”
From the article linked to above.
Re: America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:30 pm
by LibraryLady
Even back in earliest colonial times there were at least these four groups:
Indians/Native Americans
"white" immigrants
Slaves
Indentured servants
Those 4 groups didn't have the same value systems nor same goals.
Even the European immigrants had very different ideas and were not united.......
Re: America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 11:06 pm
by GFB
Well sure..if you're going to count all the people that weren't considered people.
Re: America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:10 am
by jellowrestling
GFB wrote:Well sure..if you're going to count all the people that weren't considered people.
+1
Re: America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 6:37 am
by Red Oak
I'll take John Jay's word on it...Because he was there and all
