Through detailed analyses of changes in demographics, the economy, politics, and religion, Butler explains the origins of American culture. ... Though they emigrated for different reasons (pursuit of wealth or religious freedom) and were of different specific faiths, these three groups shared enough in common with the English colonists (Protestantism, the English language, similar geographic origins) to effectively fuse with the English, forming a new, pluralistic culture found nowhere else in the world. The only two European immigrant groups that remained isolated were the Germans and the J...

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