Inclusion was never an American ideal, we were just anti-aristocrat. Mobility was a natural restriction on immigration, and as mobility increased, multi-cultural resentment rose alongside it, with policy tempered by pragmatism. Americans were sick of potato niggers by the time of the civil war, but the Union needed bodies, for example.
See even that is dependent on whom you ask, and if it comes to the left, they have no issue flip flopping between two ideas based on the situation.
In one instance, America is based on racism, sexism, slavery, etc. The worst.
In another instance, America is based on multiculturalism, immigration, inclusion, etc and has always been so until evil Trump happened.
Inclusion was never an American ideal, we were just anti-aristocrat. Mobility was a natural restriction on immigration, and as mobility increased, multi-cultural resentment rose alongside it, with policy tempered by pragmatism. Americans were sick of potato niggers by the time of the civil war, but the Union needed bodies, for example.