Is White American culture just an extension of Anglo culture in reality?

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Far more so than today but still not. One of the issues that made the US so susceptible to multiculturalism is the lack of a well defined American. English and Scottish are very different. Irish and English are very different. Throw in French, some Scandinavians, some Germans etc and it becomes hard to define an authentic Americanism. Without a strong ethnic identity it was too easy to expand Americanism to include everyone.

Other empires have solved this by having more clearly defined member states. The ottoman empire was incredibly diverse but a Kurdish town was a Kurdish town. The uk was diverse in the 1800s but a town in southern Ireland would have been 99.7% Irish and a town in Wales would have been very Welsh.

The US screwed up by not being a federation of ethnostatws. A US consisting of the Cajun state, the maine fishing town people state, the Swedish farmer state of Minnesota and the Yankee state of Massachusetts would have been more resilient.