Huntington, Samuel P, Georgie Anne Geyer, Peter Skerry, Linda Chavez, and Barbara Curtis. "The Special Case of Mexican Immigration." The American Enterprise v. 11, n. 8 (2000): 20.

America is often described as a country defined by a commitment to a creed formulated in the writings of our Founders. But American identity is only partly a matter of creed. For much of our history we also defined ourselves in racial, religious, ethnic, and cultural terms. … American is also often described as a nation of immigrants. We should distinguish immigrants, however, from settlers. Immigrants are people who leave one society and move to a recipient society. Early Americans did not immigrate to an existing society; they established new societies, in some cases for commercial reasons, more often for religious reasons. It was the new societies they created, basically defined by Anglo-Protestant culture, that attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.

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