Originally Posted by Janszoon

First Virginia is "the birthplace of America" because it once belonged to England, now it's all about its status as a state that wanted to break off from the United States. "We are America" seem like a weird phrase to use for it.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.