[Dane]

Naturally you'd fail to realize how critical the battle between Catholics and the Anglicant state church was to the process of America's founding

Uh do you read the Constitution, there is no American state Anglican church, but that doesn't matter, go ahead and dig yourself a deeper hole, trying to defend the know nothings.

BTW, how come no comment about your knee jerk reaction to this NYT article as stated by my reply #70?

[risk]

So American culture sprang out of nowhere, did it? You think that Constitutional amendment came out of thin air? No wonder you don't care about us maintaining our Anglo-Saxon heritage, you seem to think Americans were hatched out of the ether. Read a little about the old world origins of American colonial unrest when you can spare a few minutes away from the NYT. Maybe you'll get a clue why the Know-Nothing movement came into existence in the first place.