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The United States possessed an unusual nation-building advantage because American identity was capable of functioning as an ethnogenic identity: rather than requiring descent from a single historic ethnicity, the state could continually absorb heterogeneous populations and transform them, over generations, into a new national people. This gave the United States exceptional demographic, economic, and geopolitical capacity for expansion.

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Basic fact of history that has been ignored for too long.