Who is America and Why are they so Divided?: America's Ethnocultural Mosaic Explained

[@AndreasEbisch]

Thank you Bradley! That was a real help to get a picture on the multifacetted United States!

[@rhmendelson]

Great job! Your summary was very insightful!

[@JOHN----DOE]

I love Fisher's book, but it concentrates too exclusively on the British. Two other MAJOR early influences were the Dutch, whose religiously-tolerant mercantilism in New Amsterdam is seen by some (the book Island at the Center of the World) as a more original source of secular capitalism, and an enormous German Protestant population, especially in Pennsylvania and up the Hudson-Mohawk valleys. In terms of political precedence, population numbers, and sophisticated culture, these settlers constitute significant fifth and sixth pre-Revolutionary influences. If you were raised in these areas you know how powerfully these cultures still influence American values.

[@BradleyGearhart]

Great points made!

[@mcmike89]

Cavemen were no different than modern humans today as to being divided. We have always been in each other's faces since our ancestors.

[@FindTheTruthBeforeTheEnd]

Exactly. There will always be differences and division that are expressed in all sorts of ways. Even in places these days that are essentially ethnically homogeneous people find ways to hate each other for arbitrary reasons. The circle of life or whatever lol.

[@granda3649]

​@@FindTheTruthBeforeTheEndDoesn't have to happen.

[@catsnchords]

Woodard's American Nations book is a decent intro to this topic. Fischer's Albion's Seed is long, but especially a good analysis into the differences between these sub-cultures and the imprint they had on the land they settled. Another good book that touches a bit on the socio-political influence of these sub-cultures is Kevin Philips' The Emerging Republican Majority.

[@bandav_lohengrin]

Amazing job! Keep up the good work!!

[@AgeCobra]

I would tend to think that is more than 15 percent English closer to 25.

[@andymullins84]

Tidewater Norman "high born" identity was the basis for the propaganda for the South in the Civil War. Many of the actual fighters, those without a horse, descended from peasant farmers in Northern England and Southern Scotland

[@thermionic1234567]

Did Thomas Sowell actually use those polysyllabic, PC words “African American?”

[@MatthewHall-c9k]

"They?"

[@thermionic1234567]

Did he say “Native American” as well?

[@FOGGYlama123]

what else what you say indian?🤣

[@hfdcjiirjmcfi]

Native American is the only term lol

[@thermionic1234567]

@@FOGGYlama123Indigenous or aboriginal. I was born in America. My nativity is American.

[@FOGGYlama123]

@@thermionic1234567 I agree with that last part I've been saying that for awhile but the alternatives sound like shit

[@rebelanon]

​@@FOGGYlama123theres always injun lmao

[@ronaldpippen8164]

All of eastern North Carolina is the deep south and not tidewater.