No mention of "white supremacy?" Curious, I think that's a big factor. Each European nation has its own claims to identity; whereas America more-or-less loses

No mention of "white supremacy?" Curious, I think that's a big factor. Each European nation has its own claims to identity; whereas America more-or-less loses much of these individual identities in favor of "Whiteness" which sort of unifies and (badly) smooths those differences out among them, at the expense of black folks and others. I don't think you can maintain something like that without some kind of religious "glue" to support it, i.e. to be the veneer of goodness over the racism that lurks underneath. I'm sure this crosses over with a lot of that "protestant work-ethic" type stuff, especially as it allows some people who didn't do a lot of work to make claims to have done so, e.g. "Thomas Jefferson built Monticello."