well, my ancestors were Scots-Irish...mostly Scots. I have one great-great-grandmother who was full blooded Cherokee. I have records of my family going back to about the 1820s or so, and have no idea when the first ones came here.

But how the country WAS formed has but small relevance to what is possible today. We still take many, many refugees, political and otherwise...and rightly so. The population of the earth in 1700 was about 600 million; these new colonies numbered in the hundreds of thousands, (counting Native Americans, maybe a million or so...)

Is it crowded where you are Wesley? It is where I live. How crowded and tense and frustrating and insecure and ecologically imbalanced does it have to be before you would call it a problem? Does the entire world have be be brought to some sort of 'equity' of population density per acre of arable land? How DO you provide quality schooling in several languages and medical care and social services to a larger & larger underclass every year? Are you willing to devote a much larger tax bite to these things?

Those are not easy questions, and I'm sure there are many different ideas about HOW to answer them, but I assure you...doing it by default just because of an abstract ideal will backfire....that's a prediction. Call me in 20 years, and we'll see how it's gone.