Forging a “United States” identity from its component colonies, states, and regional cultures has been a challenge from the moment the federation was created. In 1776, people thought of themselves as Massachusettsians, Pennsylvanians, or South Carolinians, and knew that their respective “countries” (as they called them) had distinct origins, histories, societal models, religious heritages, ethnographic […]
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