You can’t have it both ways: America even according to the most nationalist was a melange of ethnicities and religious confessions from the founding, often from

You can’t have it both ways: America even according to the most nationalist was a melange of ethnicities and religious confessions from the founding, often from very impoverished places. Edit I should note “ethnicities” has this shifting quality. But English, Dutch, German, Irish, etc groups that first came and later Slavs, Italians, etc in the USA often were coming from some place where those differences were very large. Certainly greater than what you’re advocating for with Germany here.