“We’re a country of immigrants”
If I only had a dollar for every time I hear that nonsense...
Part of what we call America was originally territory of England. Thirteen colonies. The people who migrated here were English citizens moving to English territory, they were not foreigners coming to a foreign country.
Americans were well established for many generations long before the Revolutionary War. Americans had developed a fairly advanced state of civilization of their own.
There has always been a mostly native population with very minority immigration allowed in until 1965.
well said