not entirely, but a fuck ton of labour came over in the steamship era

I don't support illegal immigration btw

chinese, irish, italian, mexican

canadians

our ancestors came here and conquered this land in a bloody war. conflict. and since the beginning of our country until 1965 we had very strict immigration requirements

in many cases we even bought land from the natives

erm, no that wasn't really it either

like the island of Manhattan

most of that was done by small pox

and that was largely an apathetic accident

The only people in the US who aren't immigrants or recently decended from them are native Americans

we still won a war, more or less. there may have been an unintended advantage due to them lacking our immune systems

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we won a war... against the English

then much later there was the homestead act and manifest destiney

30% of the settlers died in our conflicts with the natives

Andrew Jackson and whatnot

so i mean there was definitely battles

but we were already a nation long before that

is my point

yea i know that,

thats why im saying its like really like that cliche of "we are all immigrants"

90+% of the natives died

because there is a big difference in the people who came to america back then. and those who come today

those who come today dont even speak the same language we do. and have no ancestral ties to the land.

which we, at this point do.

through shit that we fought for

even discounting the descendants of the colonists, over 200 years that still a fuck ton of mexicans, canadians, chinese, hawaiians, Irish, and so on

is what im getting at

not really.

This nation has existed for 250 years. Its only been around 150 years or so when most people weren't direct immigrants

look at the demographic make up of america before 1965

That's a short amount of time as far as nations go

the hard seller act of 1965 radically changed the immigration laws and consequentially the make up of our country. whereas before the immigration from ireland and italy was quite different then the immigration from mexico today

they integrated far far easier and we took in amount that we could handle

strategically

after rampant ethnic friction with the Irish went away

yea and that happened a lot easier due to the amnt we took in being controlled

though that was a mix of ethnic and religious confrontation, with with protestant vs catholic and whatnot

now its like 2 million+ immigrants a year

but then Irish started fighting irish, fucks sake