What does it mean to be an American when half the country no longer shares the creed? | Blaze Media

What does it mean to be an American when half the country no longer shares the creed? | Blaze Media: 

Combined, these standards, Freitas argues, determine if someone is “comprehensively American” — but it’s the third that ultimately determines who true “countrymen” are.

“The people that I really see as my countrymen are the ones that have come to fully understand what it means to be an American, loves the principles and the philosophies and the traditions, and wants to advance them into the future,” he says. “That's my countryman — whether you came here yesterday or your family came here 250 years ago.”