The US had a common culture before the civil war though it was slowly dividing but mostly over agitation between each area’s elites. The biggest divide before the civil war was the ruling elites. In the north in Puritan traders who ran everything. In the south you had landed aristocracy. When the North won they abolished the aristocracy and tried to setup a Putin trader elite. It didn’t work out to well in the south.
By the early 1900s American elites realized they needed a common culture so they started trying to promote a common American culture. Even when people are pretty different as long as you can give them something they all feel kinship too it works pretty well. The problem was it didn’t work with the immigrants. Eventually we had to slam the door on all new immigrants and abolish papers and language schools that were not English to force integration.
Today the elites have built a multicultural society that has no foundation. We’re one good shock away from everyone grouping with their own and carving territory.
We're already there, in one sense. Try driving by yourself through the south side of Chicago, through Harlem or Watts on a Saturday night.
“...abolish papers and language schools that were not English to force integration.”
When did “we” do that?
“...abolish papers and language schools that were not English to force integration.”
When did “we” do that?
No. America has never had a mono culture. It was founded specifically to avoid it. One of the primary goals was the enabling of religious conclaves within the country. The Amish, the Mennonites, Catholic focused Virginia. We have always had pockets of their own culture. And that’s just the stuff we did deliberately. Because we’re a post Industrial Revolution country there’s also the city country divide. And then as westward expansion more pockets started forming. The common culture myth of America has been wrong for as long as there’s been America.
But the common culture of America is not only present—it’s still dominant today.
The only way any democrat can be elected is to pretend to have a foundational set of traditional American values. And if any voice support for anti-American values, they go home losers.
Also, see post #70 above.