There are people to-day, not many luckily, whose families have been here for two hundred and fifty years, and who are as utterly un-American as it is possible to be, while there are others, whose fathers were immigrants, who are as intensely American as any one can desire or imagine.
Lodge argues that American identity is not solely determined by ancestry but also by individual character and values.
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