[FreedomFriend]

Yes, there have been subgroups, but there was a dominant culture that loved and respected America. You're trying to explain away the fact that many newcomers come here for economic reason and not for love of the country. You also seem to be blowing off the fact that many have allegiances to their homelands, etc., especially in a time that is praising multiculturalism. Trust me, smaller group differences within the dominant culture is not the same thing as having two entirely different cultures.

[Polybius]

Yes, there have been subgroups, but there was a dominant culture that loved and respected America. You're trying to explain away the fact that many newcomers come here for economic reason and not for love of the country. You also seem to be blowing off the fact that many have allegiances to their homelands, etc., especially in a time that is praising multiculturalism.

You are completely ignoring everything I wrote in my original Post 230

In the past century and a half, millions of immigrants may have come to the U.S. more for economical reasons rather than political reasons but, for the most part, those immigrants did not hate America and it's institutions. Nowadays, however, the U.S.A. has opened it's doors wide open to millions of individuals that seek American economic benefits but hate America and it's values.

There is no problem with "diversity" as long as diversity means being a Creole-speaking Cajun, Black, Southern, Boston Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, Hawaiian, Cubano or Heinz 57 as long as the common bond is a true love for America, the Constitution and the core values that made America great.

However, if "diversity" means that every America-hating ethnic group in the Planet can come in by the millions and set up housekeeping in the U.S., then, eventually, the philosophical character of America will change.

Once America loses the core values that made it great, America will die just as the Roman Republic died.

The point of my last post is that some on FreeRepublic seem to think there is only one “American” subculture when there has never been such an animal. On some threads, some Freepers delight in implying that those Freepers who might honor their Confederate ancestors are not “real Americans”. In their view, there is one and only one American sub-culture and that happens to be the one they belong to. Everyone else is less “American” than they are.

It is sad to say but, nowadays, the American subcultures that honor America may be in the minority and not the majority.

Southerners and Cuban Americans happen to be two of the current American sub-cultures that still love and respect America and have no problems saying so no matter how Politically Incorrect that may be to anybody else in the country.

When it comes to loving and respecting America, those two sub-cultures are stuck in the 1940’s and they wouldn’t have it any other way.

There are enough sub-cultures that actually hate America without having some Freepers throwing darts at the few remaining sub-cultures that still love America but that might be different from their own.