My point was "identity squabbling" predates any universal American national identity, so it wouldn't be a deprecation of the said American nationalism, but a re

My point was "identity squabbling" predates any universal American national identity, so it wouldn't be a deprecation of the said American nationalism, but a reversion to the pre-independence/antebellum/civil-war/reconstruction/pre-civil-rights-movement race- and gender-identity norm.