Paul Krugman: America in 1776 was a rural land, mainly composed of small farmers and bigger [Southern] farmers with slaves. And the free population consisted of WASP from northwestern Europe, 65 percent came from Britain, and 98 percent were Protestants. America today is nothing like that, even though some politicians — think Sarah Palin — like to talk as if the “real America” is still white, Protestant, and rural or small-town. But the real America is a nation of metropolitan areas, not small towns. And ethnically we are very different from the founders. We’re no longer an Anglo-Saxon nation; we’re only around half-Protestant; and we’re increasingly nonwhite. Yet we are still the same country that declared independence all those years ago.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 07:01:58 +0000
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