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For the hell of it,.,,,,lets do a analogous exercise.

I was born in the Northwest, to a Southern mother and a yankee dad.

Since birth, I have lived more than 2/3s of my life in the South, and went to college in the south, marrying a southern gal. I am still in the south.

Question:

Am I a natural born Yankee or a natural born Southerner?

I will take no offense to the answer.

After you answer that, would you question the birthrights of my children? to carry the argument further...as they were born in the south. But often travel north.and how about my grand children, my great grand children. Are they Yankees or Southerners...?

There is actually two schools of thought on this...in the same way as your opinion of natural born.

When I lived in Texas, there was a popular saying: "I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could". Texans hand these out as bumper stickers in order to identify yankees I speculate. Texans are very nativist that way. I can't speak for other southerners.

I was just reviewing the Katyal and Clement paper and am of the same opinion as Mary Brigid McManamon on the matter. They have, for whatever reason, cherry picked a few radical statutory departures from the accepted common law and then blatantly misrepresented the founders application of the common law as it applied to NBCs. They then go on to cite the Naturalization act of 1790 while ignoring the fact that the Naturalization act of 1795 repealed the Naturalization act of 1790 and specifically changed the words natural born citizens with the word citizens implying that they recognized a distinct difference between the two classes of citizens and meant to ensure that NBC status was not transferred to those born "born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States".

The paper and its conclusions are...spurious.