American nationalism

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The first Naturalization Act of 1790 passed by Congress and President George Washington defined American identity and citizenship on racial lines, declaring that only "free white men of good character" could become citizens, and denying citizenship to enslaved black people and anyone of non-European stock; thus it was a form of ethnic nationalism.

Soon afterward, the colonies faced several common grievances over acts passed by the British Parliament, including taxation without representation.

Fighting broke out in 1775 and the sentiment swung to independence in early 1776, influenced significantly by the appeal to American nationalism by Thomas Paine.

Nationalists led by George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison had Congress call a constitutional convention in 1787.

[11] In an 1858 speech, future President Abraham Lincoln alluded to a form of American civic nationalism originating from the tenets of the Declaration of Independence as a force for national unity in the United States, stating that it was a method for uniting diverse peoples of different ethnic ancestries into a common nationality: If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal", and then they feel that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote the Declaration, and so they are.

That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.White Southerners increasingly felt alienated—they saw themselves as becoming second-class citizens as aggressive anti-slavery Northerners tried to end their ability to enslave people to the fast-growing western territories.

They questioned whether their loyalty to the nation trumped their commitment to their state and their way of life since it was so intimately bound up with slavery and whether they could enslave people.

The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment settled the fundamental question of national identity, such as the criteria for becoming a citizen of the United States.

[23] By the First World War, many native-born Protestants were skeptical of recent immigrants to the United States, who were often Catholic or Jewish and spoke languages other than English in their daily lives.

The start of the war on terror was accompanied by a rise in military enlistment that included not only lower-income Americans but also middle-class and upper-class citizens.

Political scientist Paul McCartney, for instance, argues that as a nation defined by a creed and sense of mission, Americans tend to equate their interests with those of humanity, which informs their global posture.

Acknowledging the conception of the United States as accountable for spreading liberal change and promoting democracy throughout the world's politics and governance has defined practically all of American foreign policy.

Members of this group closely identified with the United States, were very proud of their country and strongly associated themselves with factors of national hubris.

Restrictive nationalists had low levels of pride in America and its institutions, but they defined a "true American" in ways that were markedly "exclusionary".

This group believed in liberal values, was proud of the United States, and its members held the fewest restrictions on who could be considered a true American.

Bonikowski and Dimaggio dubbed the group "creedal" because their beliefs most closely approximated the precepts of what is widely considered the American creed.

[36] As part of their findings, the authors report that the connection between big money, religious belief, and national identity is significant.

They also determined that their groupings cut across partisan boundaries, and they also help to explain what they perceive is the recent success of populist, nativist, and racist rhetoric in American politics.

They find, "nationalism has become sorted by party, as Republican identifiers have come to define America in more exclusionary and critical terms and Democrats have increasingly endorsed inclusive and positive conceptions of nationhood.

[44] Several officials within his administration were described as representing a "nationalist wing" within the federal government,[45] including former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon,[46] Senior Advisor to the President Stephen Miller,[46] Director of the National Trade Council Peter Navarro,[47] former Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka,[46] Special Assistant to the President Julia Hahn,[48] former Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications Michael Anton,[49] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,[50] Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross,[51] Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer,[52] former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell,[53] former National Security Advisor John R. Bolton[54] and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

[61] During the Trump era, commonly identified American nationalist political commentators included Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter,[62] Michelle Malkin,[63] Lou Dobbs,[64] Alex Jones,[65] Charlie Kirk,[66] Laura Ingraham,[62] Candace Owens,[67] Michael Savage,[68] Tucker Carlson,[69] Mike Cernovich,[70] and Nick Fuentes.