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We knew her relation with English was iffy. Now Moosolini is blaming Dallas on hyphens (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2016 OP
Hyperventilating about hyphenates, is she? nt villager Jul 2016 #1
More wisdumb from the Halfenated Halfenor of Alaska. nt Xipe Totec Jul 2016 #2
She should handle that talking point carefully, it's an antique. LeftyMom Jul 2016 #3

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3. She should handle that talking point carefully, it's an antique.
Sat Jul 9, 2016, 02:23 PM
Jul 2016

"Any man who carries a hyphen about with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready." -Woodrow Wilson

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all … The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic … There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else." -Teddy Roosevelt

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