America was very explicitly founded as a protestant white, particularly Anglo, ethnostate. Here Franklin shows they weren't even particularly fond of being Germanized, and when the Mormons appeared it was legal to shoot them. The nation of immigrants and religious tolerance narrative was crafted by a Jewish Catholic coalition in order to break the WASP power structure in the early 20th century. It'd be more accurate to say America is a nation of settlers that carved civilization out of the wilderness through pain and hardship, while immigrants has a connotation of people moving into an already established society. The left will always retort something about American Indians, which really just proves the point about the fate of a people with unsecured borders.

America was very explicitly founded as a protestant white, particularly Anglo, ethnostate. The nation of immigrants narrative was crafted by a Jewish Catholic coalition in order to break the WASP power structure in the early 20th century. It'd be more accurate to say America is a nation of settlers that carved civilization out of the wilderness through pain and hardship, while immigrants has a connotation of people moving into an already established society. The left will always retort something about American Indians, which really just proves the point about the fate of a people with unsecured borders.