I’m going to qualify something I said.
You may be “logical.” But if you are, your “logic” is misapplied.
“Logic” can always be used to justify a false conclusion.
Honesty doesn’t decide what to believe and then go looking for ways to prove it. Honesty asks what the truth is. Period.
So tell me about the thousands of children of British Loyalists. (born after July 4, 1776.) Did the founders consider them Americans or were they British?