The melting pot is a goal and a living idea, not an idealized time in the past.
And yes, groups of white Americans that were hostile to each other a century ago are now so integrated that it’s not even thought about. An Italian Catholic marrying a German Protestant was a huge deal in 1900. Today it is nothing.
interesting, so by analogy just as as those disparate groups got subsumed into a larger one in some rough identity integration thing so too we would hope to further widen that group to join with other groups to subsume everything under the sun where group divisions are no longer even perceived. The whole "just one race" sort of thing I'm imagining.
I think that is probably the best outcome for the US, if it wants to remain as a unified state for a long time. If not, then separatism eventually leads to a divorce. It’s happened before in world history, it can certainly happen again.
