,,,and that they should distribute themselves sparsely among the natives for quicker amalgamation, yet English emigrants are without this inconvenience.
Jefferson's words echo something I've said about immigration….that the only immigrants worth having are those who come "pre-assimilated", meaning, they don't have to assimilate because they are already very temperamentally and morally similar to the native stock.
Btw, Devon Stack has done a few streams on 19th century and early 20th century anti-immigration advocates in the US that reveal just how seriously some people even 150 years ago were ringing alarm bells about the danger of altering the ethnic composition of the young USA.
One of those episodes focused on a man who worried about German immigrants, and I was howling with laughter, because he scathingly wrote about Germans obsessing over brewing beer and drinking beer. It was comedy gold. I wish I could remember the episode and the name of the author featured in it.
Anyhow, my point is to imagine how FUCKING great America would be right now if the only complaint we had about our current crop of immivaders was that they enjoyed beer too much and were too satisfied with living conventional middle class lifestyles.
But that just highlights a condition of human nature that I call the Shallow Hole Hypothesis.
When you find yourself in a shallow hole, you can easily step out of it, and the fact that you know you can easily step out of it decreases the urgency of doing so. It's like people who live at the beach and don't go to lay on the sand that often….they know it's right there and they can go anytime, so they don't go.
Same with immigration. German immigrants were roughly compatible with the English founding stock of the US, so any frictions were akin to stepping in a shallow hole. It's a mild annoyance, but you can step out anytime. Yet, you don't. The hole gets deeper and deeper, until one day you're a hundred feet down looking up at an avalanche of somalis, beaners, jeets, jews, and gooks falling into the hole with you.
