Our Great U.S. Culture War Series, No.4b.

In this second of two pieces we show how to determine, empirically, that the regional sub-cultures assimilated all others and describe the ideas shared in across our founding national culture.

Assimilation

The unity of one emerging national Culture – an American Culture – co-existed with the diversity of the Tidewater, New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Frontier Appalachian Sub-Cultures. Diversity wasn’t the 1619 Project’s discredited, propagandized division by Race into a White and Black America. Real diversity was among the regional Sub-Cultures which assimilated their own diverse ethnicities.

Assimilation, formerly known as the Melting Pot, is hated on campus and among the Leftist chattering class. But, assimilation is precisely what happened.

If you visit the state centers and National Parks at Jamestown and Yorktown, you’ll see the politically-correct story of three cultures – European, African, and Indigenous – meeting and blending like a Starbucks latte. It’s the myth of Multi-Culturalism. That’s demonstrably false and patently absurd. If you look at the public school history books for young Virginians, you’ll see they’re fed the same pablum.

It’s true that some aspects of African and Indian Cultures merged with British Culture, but that unity was under the power of assimilation by a dominant group. Again, that group wasn’t about “Whiteness.” It was four different British Sub-Cultures.

Here’s a study for any budding Social Scientist: Measure what was what in Virginia in 1776.

Make a list on the left of your whiteboard from 1 to n for the top identifying aspects of any culture. That’s a list what makes one culture different from another. Use the taxonomy below or add and call the categories by other names, if you please – from scholarly sources.

The list could read: 1) Language 2) Religion 3) Government 4) Law 5) Family and sexual behaviors 6) Literature 7) Myths and legends 8) Folklore 9) Child rearing and nursery rhymes/stories/songs 10) Art 11) Music and dance 12)Education and professions 13) Trades and training 14) Customs 15) Traditions 16) Other social norms – manners, speech, etc. 17) Work and commerce 18) Resources and economy 19) Science and technology 20) Military and way of war 21) Sports and games 22) Other entertainments 23) Architecture 24) Foods 25) Clothes 26) Organizations 27) Domestic animals and pets 28) Medicine 29)Architecture…n)

Across the top of the whiteboard from left to right add the columns: English (West Counties), Scot-Irish, African (specify the tribe), Indian (specify the tribe).

Now, fill in the matrix.

There will be tremendous overlap with the same entries for English and Scot-Irish. There’ll be an entry for every category in 1776 for both English and Scot-Irish.

The African and Indian columns in 1776 will be very sparsely populated.

For example, Virginia got tobacco, potatoes, succotash, and moccasins from the Neolithic tribal culture who committed the massacres of 1622 and 1644. What else?

The persons of African and Indian ethnicities in Virginia by 1776 were, culturally, much more British than name-your-African or Indian tribe. The same is true for the French Huguenots, Germans, English Catholics, and Jews who lived in Virginia in 1776. They were all assimilated by the dominant Sub-Cultures.

People retained an ethnic identity within the Sub-Culture where they lived, but it wasn’t as definitive as the dominant Sub-Culture. Yes, there was lawful chattel slavery for Africans and discrimination against Indians. Yet, the differences between Whites and Blacks were two sides of the same coin.

The Founding American Culture

As the Sub-Cultures were evolving and assimilating diverse people, the incipient American Culture was birthing. Americans, despite their regional differences and ancestral quarrels, had much in common.

America was 98.1% Protestant. It was 1.8% Roman Catholic and .1% Jewish. That huge Protestant majority shared the King James Bible. Furthermore, the dissenting Protestant denominations shared a legacy of persecution. The Protestants shared more ideas in common than they bickered over opposing denominational doctrines.

The King James Bible and English Common Law were the basis of laws in every new sovereign state in these United States of America.

The First Great Awakening was a shared cultural experience across all 13 Colonies. Likewise, the American Enlightenment, which was distinctly different from the French and British Enlightenments, swept all the Colonies together.

There was a high literacy rate. The Federalist Papers were written for farmers to read and discuss. They are beyond the reading comprehension and understanding of most Americans today. The nine per cent of Americans who spoke German were fully engaged in the ideas swirling around them. Transportation was difficult, but the news – and ideas – got out to every hinterland.

What emerged was “The American Creed.” The first American Creed has been called Protestantism without God. This is the essence of what it meant to be “American”.

The American Creed included:

• The English language
• Christianity – Biblical Worldview
• Religious commitment
• English Rule of Law
• Ruler’s responsibilities
• Individual rights
• Dissenting Protestant values of individualism
• Work ethic
• Enlightenment ability and duty to “do better” in civic society
• European art, literature, and history

This American Creed evolves over time. This is the founding version.

Next Issue

We’ll discuss how the fundamental issues argued in writing the U.S. Constitution were disputes over the ideas based in the American Creed. Interestingly so, these same disputes are the real issues behind today’s highly politicized talking points and hot buttons.

The Constitution encoded the American Creed as the framework for governments and the highest law of the land. Today, the Constitution is under mortal attack because of the rejection of the evolved American Creed by the Human Secularist Totalitarians. All the Leftists, regardless of what they call themselves – to include “Democrat”, are Human Secularist Totalitarians. Conservatives believe in the American Creed ideas and support the Constitution – as written

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