the union was already effectively dissolved when "american" stopped having a meaning tethered to ideas about kith and kin, shared beliefs, heritage, future, and values, and could simply just be a word for someone in a geographical area. no, pablo hernandez is not the same kind of "american" as me, and any definition of "american" that says otherwise is one that has no value - this is readily understood even by people that profess race blindness and egalitarianism. even ignoring the immigrant/race angle, reginald hawthorn of california is practically foreign to me. i have been around the country, i am from missouri. i have met many "americans" i consider foreigners even without racial grounds, and they treat me and mine the same way. it is clearly regional to some extent, not to mention the cosmopolitan idea that makes all cities alien. i am under no obligation to pretend this situation isn't fact just because it hurts the shiny idiotic thing you internally consider "american." it has already long been established any claim i made on those grounds was invalid *for* being on those grounds no, this is all bullshit. my idea was right and yours is not. no union will be dissolved, the people who never were part of it will simply be removed
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