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>by immigrants and populated by immigrants

By white immigrants of a more-or-less shared Christian ancestry*

You make it sound like the USA was founded by a rainbow-coloured melting pot. It definitely was not

When the Declaration of Independence was signed, Africans comprised a significant percentage of the US population (60% of SC, 40% of VA, and 20-25% of northern urban centers like Boston and Newport [1])(2). They were not white, likely not Christian, and instrumental to the establishment of the US.

1) https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/... 2) https://faculty.weber.edu/kmackay/statistics_on_slavery.htm

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