Returned yesterday from California, where the Claremont Institute held a conference on citizenship and immigration. There were several highlights–including the fact that any speaker who wanted to get a laugh told a joke about the French–but my favorite moment was a talk by Peter Schramm of the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. Peter’s family fled Hungary in 1956, when he was 10 years old, so he’s always interesting when it comes to discussing the meaning of America. He was telling the story of how his family made the decision to go, and recalled something his father said: “We were born Americans, just in the wrong place.” Isn’t that a wonderful notion?