Herein lies the problem. When government and PC drones started the whole hyphenated name crap (Irish-America, African-America, Native-American) we lost our identity as a country and create cliques within cliques that were existent before but only in a historical aspect. Previous immigrants wanted to be called American, not anymore.
At times. It was more of a regional phenomenon. Once[some still do] it was I'm a Virginian, a Tennessean. Texas perhaps carries that tradition today.
Yeah, Greenfield isn’t touching on anything new. It’s identity politics and it’s been around a long time.
Obama is just the agent, the catalyst, for pushing the US past the tipping point when it comes to Balkanization ...
When my grandmother, who was born in 1903, and her family called themselves Irish-American, they meant that they were Americans whose ancestors came from Ireland, and when my grandfather's family called themselves Italian-Americans, they meant that they were Americans whose ancestors came from Italy. "American" was the family name, because we were all part of the American family. Cf. The House I Live In We still could be, except that it wouldn't benefit the leftists.