In my heart, I'm an American

Southern Cultures

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 119-137

  Griffin, Larry J ^a   McFarland, Katherine ^a  

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References (28)

1. James Cobb and William Steuck, eds. , Globalization and the American South (University of Georgia Press, 2006)
2. James Peacock, Harry Watson, and Carrie Matthews, eds. , The American South in a Global World (University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
3. Carl Degler, "The Foundations of Southern Distinctiveness," The Southern Review 13 (Spring 1977): 225-39
4. Milton M. Gordon, Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion, and National Origins (Oxford University Press, 1964)
5. Arthur Mann, "From Immigration to Acculturation," in Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States, ed. Luther Luedtke (University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 68-80.
6. The quote that serves as the title of this essay is from a statement by an undocumented Latino whose legal claim to American citizenship was delayed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It continues: "I'm No Longer One of 'Them. ' I'm One of 'Us. '" The Herald (Rock Hill, S. C. ), 4 July 1999.
7. The General Social Survey is widely used in public opinion studies and is fielded by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (see http://www. norc. org/projects/General+Social+Survey. htm). The GSS consists of face-to-face interviews with a nationally representative sample of adults eighteen and older.
8. Mann, "From Immigration to Acculturation," 68.
9. See, also, Michael Walzer, "What Does It Mean to Be An 'American'?" Social Research 57 (Fall 1990): 591-614.
10. W. B. Gallie, "Essentially Contested Concepts," in W. B. Gallie, Philosophy and the Historical Understanding (Schocken, 1964), 157-91
11. Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Harper and Brothers, 1944), 4.
12. Myrdal, An American Dilemma, 5
13. Mann, "From Immigration to Acculturation," 70.
14. Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960 (Atheneum Publishers, 1961), 295.
15. Kennedy's Houston speech is reprinted on pages 437-39.
16. On Fordice, see The Washington Post, 18 November 1992.
17. On Moore, see The New York Times, 19 November 2002; 7 March 2004.
18. Samuel Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (Simon and Schuster, 2004).
19. See, also, Alan Wolfe's review of Huntington, "Native Son: Samuel Huntington Defends the Homeland," Foreign Affairs 83. 3 (May-June, 2004), 120.
20. On Lamar Alexander, see Bloomberg at http://www. bloomberg. com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid+a-LjjNFU9gBY&refer= us.
21. Wolfe, "Native Son," 121. Immigrants from Mexico alone account for half of the recent immigrants into the United States and compose almost 30 percent of the nation's foreign-born population.
22. See Michael B. Katz, Mark J. Stern, and Jamie J. Fader, "The Mexican Immigration Debate: The View from History," Social Science History 31 (Summer 2007): 157-89.
23. See, also, George Sanchez, "Face the Nation: Race, Immigration, and the Rise of Nativism in Late Twentieth Century America," International Migration Review 31 (Winter 1997): 1009-1030.
24. See, for example, the report, "The Status of Muslim Civil Rights in the United States, 2002," from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, http://www. cair-net. org/civilrights2002/, accessed 29 May 2007.
25. John Egerton, The Americanization of Dixie, the Southerinzation of America (Harper's Magazine Press, 1974)
26. Peter Applebome, Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture (Times Books, 1996).
27. For state-level statistics on Latinos, see U. S. Census Bureau at http://quickfacts. census. gov/qfd/, accessed 23 July 2007
28. Data are from the 2005 American Community Survey, conducted by the U. S. Census Bureau at http://factfinder. census. gov/home/saff/main. html?-lang=en, accessed 15