For some nativists, America really was pretty much all white

Andrew,

Nice posting on the Pat Buchanan essay on race in America. One aspect of the "real" America push that I haven't seen discussed is that for many of these Buchananites their "real America" revolves around a heavier religious component than is currently the case. In fact, for a wide swath of those people, their religious activity *is* their reality.

But we can't talk about religion on America without at least discussing the fact, as Obama pointed out, that "Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America." If their future reality is, in fact, a wistful look back at past churchgoing, it should be no wonder that their memories are filled with almost all white people.

The fact that secular America is and always has been suffused with multiculturalism doesn't touch that reality.

Your pal,

Fred