I know Texans do.
I was born in America, therefore, I am a Native American. End of story.
If you and your parents were born here, that makes you a native American. Maybe they meant aboriginal Americans?
Since we’re into Southerners vs Northerners, we might want to ask again -— was the civil war between the American North and South about slavery as the standard talking heads want us to believe, or was it about state rights and the right to self-determination?
Hmmm. My family first landed on these shores sometime in the middle 1600’s. The first member of my family born here was born in 1653. Does this mean I am a Native American too??
I was born here. I am a native American.
I think Nativist Americans would be a good title to describe these types of Southerners.
You don't want to be “just” an American.
“Wish I was in the land of cotton ....”
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If you were born on a piece of land that was once colonized by Spain, does it make you a Hispanic? A Latino? How vague is that?
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I was born here. I am a native American.
America wasn’t America during the time of the Indians. Those folks went by their tribal names.
Indians alive today, if born in the US can also be called native American’s though they still cling to their tribal heritage and for the most part shun American culture/nationhood.
It’s all very confusing
I was born here. I am a native American.
America wasn’t America during the time of the Indians. Those folks went by their tribal names.
Indians alive today, if born in the US can also be called native American’s though they still cling to their tribal heritage and for the most part shun American culture/nationhood.
It’s all very confusing
This “indigenous” fetishization is nothing but left-wing aryanism (these people are more deserving because of their race and ancestry).
My ancestors landed here well before the United States existed. They fought in the French & Indian War, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Texas Revolution (including one that fell at the Alamo).
I am as native as a white man can be, and am Texan from a time before Texas existed.
I am no more American than a close friend of mine who was born in Bolivia, immigrated illegally with his mother when he was very young, and worked to obtain his U.S. Citizenship after Reagan’s amnesty.
If he and I are equally American, as we are, I refuse to acknowledge that a certain race of people is more deserving, or more “native”.
SnakeDoc
I’m southern back to Pochahontas-Rolfe and Byrd of the FFV
and the old Sullivan prod line too
but this idea makes no more sense than pandering to anyone else over identity
when whites eventually become a persecuted minority rather than persecuted majority then I would like minority special treatment
/s
Maybe pick someone for your holiday who is not associated with the death of hundreds of thousands to preserve slavery?
My family goes back a lot of generations. I was born here, I am a native American.
My folks were in Jamestown, in Plymouth, first settlers of Annapolis before it was named. We moved into the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky, then westward. I speak as the seed of pioneers:
Sure, you can claim Southern superiority. You can fly the Rebel flag if you want.
But it’s ill-advised to use our heritage to stir up trouble.
One of the great legacies of the colonists was a deep and abiding belief in God and his Word. From Paul, as written in I Corinthians 10:23—
” ‘Everything is permissible’ — but not everything is beneficial. ‘Everything is permissible’ — but not everything is constructive. Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others.”
This thread aims at divisiveness. We have enough of that already.
“If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.” Romans 12:18
My great x9 grandmother came to Jamestown, VA in 1610 when she was 10 years old. Her eldest daughter (my ancestor) was born 1617 in Jamestown. That line of the family moved to North Carolina in 1815. I’m American and I’m southern. I’m also middle aged, female, and a good shot with many a weapon so anyone that wants to argue the American and/or the Southern can kiss my grits.