Don’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya.
The thing that we think of that makes a true American, existed even before Columbus found America.
It has always existed in the minds of productive people, farmers, merchants, craftsman that someday what they make with their sweat and ingenuity would be theirs to keep, and not forced over to a emperor, a king, piles of minions, dukes and royalty and their spawn or government Senators and a welfare state and all its hack employees.
American is a place, it is a state of mind.
The United States Government is not American.
Most of the people alive today, that are American, have never been to America. They are people that want to live free and productive lives. I meet them everywhere in my travels.