[justshutupandtakeit]

No your home, their home and my home is the United States of America your citizenship is defined through the nation. The Islamic killers don't try and kill us because we are from Texas, or Arkansas or Illinois but because we are Americans.

Parochial and limited views are destructive. Gangs fight for their turf too but that doesn't change them from being anything other than criminals.

George Washington and most of his generation considered themselves to be AMERICANS first last and always.

[TexConfederate1861]

"George Washington and most of his generation considered themselves to be AMERICANS first last and always"

I am not so sure about that. Americans, especially in the South felt differently.

Regardless, my first loyalty is to Texas.