Ingrained in the DNA of our country is that the people who came here were either pioneers or refugees. They were the second and third children who had to strike out on their own. They were people escaping oppression and looking for freedom. They were going on an errand into the wilderness. They are people who are used to uprooting, changing their minds, and being part of a frontier. Whether that was the literal frontier that existed until around 1900 or things like the electronic frontier, people in the United States were more willing to uproot from their Old World and take the risks of
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