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  8. I read an interesting book recently called "After Nationalism" that discusses various different phases of American identity. The author talks about how deeply Anglophilic the old Anglo-American elite used to be, particularly the leaders of Federalist Party. Even long after the revolution, English-American elites used to really venerate British culture and history, and view the United States as being largely continuous with "English Civilization," as opposed to some entirely new thing. This manifested not only in continued allegiance to the old English churches, but also a preoccupation with teaching the history of England and venerating English cultural ideals like Shakespeare, the Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution, and so on. There was also a deep obsession with viewing everything through a France-v-England or Spain-v-England lens, with England's traditional enemies presumed to be America's as well. It's interesting how much of this has faded now. I think we now associate Anglo-Americans as having been mostly subsumed into distinctly "American" cultural traditions that are entirely detached from any identifiably British heritage, including Evangelical Christianity and the culture of "the South" more broadly. Other than defensiveness about the English language, I am not sure what would be the most visible signs of an ongoing effort to preserve English culture in America. I can only think of small things, like the ongoing fascination with the British royal family, or perhaps what Christopher Hitchens once described as America's distinctive "Churchill cult."
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