"Out of Many, One"
The official motto of the United States of America , but one that seems to have fallen out of favor since the 1970s. It was even our official motto until 1956.
Its time to claim it again, and especially claim it for the Democratic Party.
Demographics are changing. America is becoming a more racially and culturally diverse nation. This is part of the wailing and knashing of teeth we're hearing on the right. Its the last gasp of a highly Patriarchal, very white paradigm of America, one emphasized by the disappearance of that motto and the Southern Strategy.
Mitt Romney won the same percentage of white voters as George H. W. Bush did in 1988. In 1988 that was a 400-vote electoral landslide. Now? a bitter defeat.
But America's vision of itself was never really a 'white people's land' - if only becaise the definition of what counts as 'white' kept expanding. Englishmen only, then English and German, then Irish, Italian, then Eastern Europeans and so on. But even then, the ideal was that everyone counted, especially by the end of the 20th Century.
America's diversity was once celebrated as our greatest advantage over other Great Powers. America was a better, stronger country for its diversity over 'Blood and Soil' nationalities like Germany or France or England. Go look back at 1940s war propaganda films, and even Civics textbooks as late as the Bicentennial.
America is beginning to fulfill the promise of that motto, and its time to take it back and use it again. The Democratic Party coalition now resembles the motto -- younger, more diverse, and more open than the other guys.
E Pluribus Unum.
Out of Many, One People
This should be our motto again.