Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.
John SteinbeckThe comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
John Steinbeck