>>The population is majority European in ancestry: about 50% Spanish, 50% Italian,
The problem is cultural.
Add to that the German influence. There’s a reason the Nazis fled there.
The problem is catholicsm and the corruption that comes with it.
“The problem is cultural.”
The British influence (Magna Carta, etc.) was a boon to this country. Add to that the many people who fled to the US to be free from persecution and to have the opportunity to prosper.
Europe is important to Western civilization. The best Europeans, daring and hard-working, came here.
Others have to be considered on a case-by-case basis. I remember reading many years ago that Mexicans came to Texas to work. They came to California for welfare.
I am not sure that there is so much a problem with Catholicism as there is a benefit to Protestantism. Protestantism has multiple denominations and hence more dispersed power.
Even Protestants can have a problem with concentrated power. For years, a mostly conservative Methodist rank and file has unwittingly supported a left-wing leadership that is morally and theologically corrupt.
The left does not create, so much as it “takes-over” (steals). Contrary to Marx, the left does not start in the grass roots. It starts, per Lenin, top-down. So now we have a Pope who is not Catholic.