In 1915 President Woodrow Wilson spoke to a group of recently naturalized citizens, saying “You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.”2 And two years later, President Teddy Roosevelt said in a speech in New York, “We can have no ‘fifty-fifty’ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.”
