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Mary Anne — (archived)

The Continental Army had its own Native allies who fought along side them, and free blacks were part of the Revolutionary Army. Volunteers from other parts of Europe, such as Thaddeus Koszciusko and Haym Solomon from Poland, held positions of authority under General Washington.

No one but white male landowners were in the Continental Congress, but they were the only ones who could vote. Chances are, that ruled out your ancestors. Mine weren't here yet.

The Spanish were busy living in Florida, which we took over under Jackson, and the French had fled Canada for, among other places, Louisiana, where they built a thriving little city called Nouvelle Orleans that Napoleon sold to us along with half the continent during the Jefferson Administration. Many of our new citizens were of mixed race, and for that matter, so were many of ours.

The only peoples who weren't represented here were Asians.

The political structure of this country was in part inspired by the political structure of the Iroquois Five Nations, which had so impressed Benjamin Franklin that he brought the ideas with him to the Consitutional Convention.

Our capital city was built in Roman classical (i.e., Italian) style, and was designed by Benjamin Banneker, the son of a former indentured servant exiled from England named Molly Walsh and a freed African slave named Bannaky.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but your "white nation" is a white myth. Sure, we have some northwest European roots. And some Native American. And some African. And some Spanish. And some Polish. And some Jewish. And some Italian. And some French...

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