“This country has been “Balkanized” from the start
Slave states vs non slave states nearly ripped the union apart.
Jim Crowe laws, the gilded age, women’s suffrage, camps for the Japanese during WW2, segregation until the mid 1960s.
American culture has been defined by that. There has never been a homogeneous American culture”
Exactly. Not to mention that, during earlier waves of immigration, plenty of European immigrants (Greek, German, Irish Italian, etc.) were initially considered not “white” or “American.” So, not only has Balkanization been part of America from the start, so too have fears that “there’s too much Balkanization, and [insert group] just aren’t American enough”
At what point can we simply be Americans?
Earlier waves don’t mean alot what you had half the country empty & travel was almost non-existent for most people. No welfare, no unemployment checks, little government education, no medicare.medicaid, no racial handouts, etc...
And you can’t import a million without displacing another million OF YOUR OWN COUNTRYMAN today. Why are you own countrymen less important than multiculturalism/immigration?
And you wonder why many people have an instinctively negative reaction to a Miss America who reflects a celebration of this?