[–] CatNamedJava ago (edited ago)
No it is an anglo protestant country. Fucking Irish destroyed our nation.
[–] Joe_McCarthy [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
What I posted was campaign propaganda appealing to the sentiments of white voters in the face of the revolutionary racial policies of Radical Republicans. Seymour actually got a majority of the white vote for POTUS in 1868 - and even with some Southern states still being out of the Union and being unable to vote along with many former Confederates that were disenfranchised in Southern states that were in the Union. Before the Civil War asking this question was virtually akin to asking whether water is wet. The only arguable question now is whether America is a white man's country in 2016.
[–] ScientiaPotentia 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Is Nigeria a Nigerian man's country? Is China a Chinese man's country? Similarly, America is an American man's country. Are you ethnically American? By American I mean a White man of Western European ancestry who is the descendants those who settled in America to form the United States of America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_ethnicity
Similarly, other White Western European ethnicities are Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, White South African and Afrikaner.
[–] Joe_McCarthy [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Interestingly, in census data people most likely to choose 'American' as their ethnicity are those found in the Border and Middle South where people of British Protestant stock descended from colonial settlers predominate. Whites in other areas often identify as Italian, German, Irish, etc., and are of immigrant stock that arrived within the last 160 years or so.
[–] ScientiaPotentia ago (edited ago)
No, the largest demographic in the US at independence through to this day is German. English is third.
[–] Super_Cooper 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yes it was. The system of governance (The Constitution) and principles that guided policy came from white men. The technological innovations that made this country great came from white men. The uninhabited land was colonized and made fruitful by white people. Resources were extracted, crops were cultivated, and they were all made available to the markets. The contributions of other races to America are marginal. America is great because if white men. We should respect and honor this fact.
[–] nomenimion 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago (edited ago)
America is any man's country.
[–] Gardmeria 4 points -3 points 1 point (+1|-4) ago
Yes. and brown people built it.
[–] Joe_McCarthy [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
What exactly is built in picking cotton?
[–] Gardmeria 2 points -1 points 1 point (+1|-2) ago
Industry. Read you damn bible.