Agreed.
Being an American is more than the real estate underneath your feet. It is a state of mind.
Consider the converse: how many millions of people live in the lower 48 who are communist (for all intents and purposes)? Or only interested in taking whatever they can get without giving a fair equivalent (such as working for it)? These people cannot be reasonably be regarded as ‘American’, imo.
We lived briefly in Northern California in a college town and they were big Bernie supporters, and we living the deteriorating effects of Jerry Brown goverment, but they were still running pell mell over the liberal cliff.
But one thing, I was very surprised to hear over and over again, was how they HATED and DESPISED Islam and how they were angry that they were being imported here.
Go figure.