Jacob Grandstaff
1 min readDec 17, 2019

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That’s why you’ve grown frustrated with the U.S. You expected a country that never existed because of an understanding of history that never happened.

Britain didn’t colonize the North American continent the way it did, say, India. It conquered North America the way the Romans conquered Gaul. The Latin-speaking Italian settlers in Gaul weren’t immigrants. They were Roman settlers, who simply moved from from one area of Rome to another, no different than it would be to move from California to Alaska. If Alaska declared independence from the U.S. and became the Republic of Alaska, the peope would still be English-speaking Americans, only with a new citizenship.

As far as immigrants moving to the U.S. post-1776, they all assimilated into the pre-1776 British American nation. I’ve been to areas of New England of almost entirely Italian ancestry, and there’s no difference between these descendants of post-1776 immigrants and the New England descendants of pre-1776 British settlers….unless, of course, you consider the superior quality of Italian cuisine.

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Jacob Grandstaff
Jacob Grandstaff

Written by Jacob Grandstaff

MA in History; Mostly culture, trends, and occasional rants. History blog: https://historyhowithappened.com/

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