“America has never been a beard country”
Umm, yes, yes it has.
Look at the mugs of most Confederate generals, save Lee. Longstreet, Jackson, Hill. It wasn’t until women could vote that you had presidents without beards.
of the 44 US presidents over the passed 237 years, only 5 had beards and 4 others had mustaches.
Look At Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William H. Taft, and I could name a few more. All of those had beards. The second half of the 19th century in America was a time where having a beard was the fashionable thing for an American grown man to have.
Ummm, the beard discussion is stupid, on both sides, but that's a particularly ignorant remark.
I'm pretty sure Washington, Adams, Jefferson, et al. were presidents....and in fact, until Lincoln, ALL US presidents were clean shaven.