America: No longer 1 nation, 1 people

[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/

[LibraryLady]

Didn't read the article, but were we EVER 1 nation and 1 people?

[planosteve]

I donno. Buchannan sometimes makes sence and sometimes doesn't. Sometimes he's a mismash. Here he's a mismash.

[GFB]

Didn't read the article, but were we EVER 1 nation and 1 people?

Yes..people came to be Americans.

[grouchy]

Didn't read the article, but were we EVER 1 nation and 1 people?

No ma'am.

[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.

[BillB]

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.

[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.......

[GFB]

Well sure..if you're going to count all the people that weren't considered people.

[jellowrestling]

Well sure..if you're going to count all the people that weren't considered people.

+1

[Red Oak]

I'll take John Jay's word on it...Because he was there and all