Gaul Atreides (@gaulatreides)

Fourth, the fact that White Americans are not composed of any single European nation, but are a blend of all White nationalities, with the Germanic element predominating, means that an ideology grounded in a pan-European "Aryan" racial mythos will always find more appeal here than any form of nationalism rooted in the old 19th-century European nation-states. A related theory I've had about how ethnic White immigration during the late 19th to early 20th centuries shaped founding stock White America's racial consciousness is that the success of incorporating ethnic Whites into the dominant WASP culture may have conditioned White Americans to believe they could incorporate nonwhites just as easily. It was not an easy assimilation, though. Italians and Irish brought their racial habits with them, and it caused troubles here. But they were close enough, genetically and racially, to the Anglo-Germanic core that incorporation, largely helped along by ethnic intermarriage and mixed-ethnicity children, was successful, after fits and starts. The problem with that success merging White ethnics with Anglo-America is that it opened a Pandora's Lox of hubris and recklessness. The newly emerged broadly White core of America, stripped of its ethnic boundaries, came to believe that, based on past successes assimilating the White ethnics, there would be no difficulty doing the same with nonwhite immigrants. And the economic boom that coincided with the years following the ingestion of White ethnics likewise conditioned White Americans to think that nonwhite immigration would provide similar economic benefits to the country. Our success assimilating White ethnics, ironically became our failure to assimilate nonwhites.