Anglo-Saxon America
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- The parts of the American continent colonized or historically controlled by Anglo-Saxon people, principally the USA and Canada.
- 1970, Celso Furtado, Economic Development of Latin America: A Survey from Colonial Times to the Cuban Revolution, page 8:
- In 1800 the population of the United States and Canada combined was 6 million whereas that of Latin America was over 19 million. By 1900, Anglo-Saxon America had a population of 81 million and Latin America only 63 million.
- 1999, Mario Sáenz, The Identity of Liberation in Latin American Thought, page 101:
- Nevertheless, during the nineteenth century there was a similar concern in both Anglo-Saxon America and Spanish America with "purification" of the blood […]
- 2006, Gary J Dorrien, The Making of American Liberal Theology, page 319:
- The "manifest destiny" of Anglo-Saxon America was a favorite theme of Fourth of July orators
- Synonym of white America.
- 1976, James Paul Rodechko, Patrick Ford and His Search for America: A Case Study of Irish-American Journalism, 1870-1913, page 218:
- Excluded from Anglo-Saxon America, Irish-Americans […]
- 1998, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race, page 51:
- […] from the compact trope of "the sea-divided Gael," to the poet's refusal of an "Anglo-Saxon" America because "you are not of the self-same race […]
- 2002, Donna R. Gabaccia, Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History, page 132:
- Many expressed their desire to join Anglo-Saxon America by adopting their forms of Protestantism.