[Gritty]

Am I alone in despising the term “Homeland” to describe the territory of our great Republic?

No, you are not. I despise it (and suspect the reasons behind it) as well.

In previous years, it was foreign tyrannies who used such terms to get popular patriotic support behind their onerous regimes. Why we are using the same term is beyond me.

It stinks. It is unAmerican.

[allmendream]

Apparently Peggy Noonan sounded the alarm about the un-American/fascist/totalitarian nature of the phrase - but I was unable to locate the exact article - just an article describing the article.

We are a nation of principles, not of a particular geography. A naturalized American can come from ‘the old country’ and have a Homeland - but we have never popularly used the phrase to describe our nation until now - and I do NOT embrace the change!