> People who cling to their old country are more American than I?
As are people who cling to worshipping as heroes those who killed US citizens in order to maintain an institution that enslaved the ancestors of current US citizens.
Or so they would have you believe...
I don't find it a "heritage", I find it an aberration.
My people populated the South for more than 200 years before the "unpleasantness". There's way more to the South than the confederacy.
My gggrandfather was a player in the forming of the Confederacy, he just about singlehandedly propelled Tennessee into the fold.
He also served proudly in the US Senate after the defeat of the Confederacy.
I also find the hypocrisy of these loser flag-wavers complaining about hyphenated Americans is precious.