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Los Angeles is not a home game for the United States,” a
Los Angeles Times reporter agreed.4
Past immigrants wept with joy when, after overcoming hardship and risk, they saw the Statue of Liberty;
enthusiastically identified themselves with their new
country that offered them liberty, work, and hope; and
often became the most intensely patriotic of citizens. In
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2000 the proportion of foreign-born was somewhat less
than in 1910, but the proportion of people in America
who were also loyal to and identified with other countries was quite possibly higher than at any time since the
American Revolution.
Subnational Identities. In his book Race Pride and
the American Identity, Joseph Rhea quotes the poetry
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