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Quote from the Great Theodore Roosevelt: "A hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts 'Native' before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance." Theodore Roosevelt

I finally read a post from a man who thinks EXACTLY the way I do. My wife says that this is a scary scenario!

Seriously, I travel a lot, domestic US, Europe, South America, Far East. When guests ask me where I'm from, I respond, "I'm an American." Conversations continue, "are you Irish?"... "no, I'm an American." "Yeah, but where are you from?"... I was born in New Jersey." "But before you were born, where were you from?"... "My mother's womb" "Really, where was your mother from?"... "Well she is an American too"...

This is when I get pissed off; "Listen, I'll set this straight for you okay?? Mark Davis is an English-Welsh-German-Austian-AMERICAN. My children are English-Welsh-German-Austrian-AND-Czech-AMERICANS."

I've spoken with my children about these conversations, and now that they have enough mature gray matter to THINK; the ask their parents why Jesse Yapton and Al Harpton talk about "African-Americans" all the time. My son said, "Dad, Africa is a continent, it's not a country.

My response was, "Now you understand."