Because it got America over thousands of miles of land for a very cheap amount of currency.
Apparently there are only two major political parties there.
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400 years ago America consisted of a few colonies, financed by private investments, whose inhabitants were mainly religious minorities.
The experiment was both a religious and an economic one: to develop a colony, in the other side of the world, where a religious, homogeneous minoroty could develop an economy, mostly self-sustaining, but also with the goal of trading with the local inhabitants.
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Nativism is the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants,[1] including the support of immigration-restriction measures.[2]
In scholarly studies, nativism is a standard technical term, although those who hold this political view do not typically accept the label. Oezguer Dindar wrote, "[N]ativists [...] do not consider themselves [to be] nativists. For them it is a negative term and they rather consider themselves as 'Patriots'.[3]
