I wish I could believe this:

“Mr. Derbyshire—I read your citizenship conversation completely

differently. Isn’t itmore likely that she couldn’t imagine abandoning her

native citizenship, even while accepting the premise that one might become

the citizen of another country? I don’t take that as insouciant, I take

that as fiercely loyal to her native land. When she says ‘that’s

terrible…’ I think she is just

assuming you have the same loyalty to your native country that she has to

hers – and that it would be a terrible thing to be forced to give up your

citizenship to your native country. Her underlying assumption then, is that

you had to give up that citizenship unwillingly – because most Americans

couldn’t conceive of renouncing their own citizenship any other way (and

even then probably wouldn’t).”

But if that were her point of view, then how, does she think, did the U.S.A.

get populated?