Arizona's New Immigration Law

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Originally Posted by joethiesmanfan

Who said that the constitution was an English document. A bunch of fugitives, criminals, and religious extremists from England running around trying to mimic the French Revolution.

I don't think many people would argue the Constitution didn't derive from the Magna Carta, and the effects of English history.

Originally Posted by joethiesmanfan

and the Going to California complaining about Mexicans is like going to Hawaii complaining about Hawaiians. We do have an English part of the country it's called New England. Preserving English culture is not being a patriot. England burned the freaking white house down. In Amercian culture we have incorporated lots of different types of talent to build this empire. If Amercia was all about being English why did they go all the way acroos the ocean to pick up Africans to teach them how to farm rice and cotton? (proof: where were the rice and cotton pantations in England? didn't have any it's not English culture). What made Amercia rich? Surely wasn't blood pie.

Did Africans from the ivory coast/liberia farm rice and cotton? I ask because I did not know that. Looking online, cotton and rice increased the slave trade due to the need for cheap labor not instructions on farming cotton per se.

Interesting reads on this topic include:

Slavery in America
and

Plantation System of the South: Information from Answers.com
All that said, your point of incorporating a lot of cultures (melting pot) is true but we didn't succeed as a country by setting up islands of nationalities (didn't work well in Czechoslovakia either), but by the individual nationalities submitting to an identity as a United States citizen.