nationalism teaches you to hate people who have done nothing to you and to take credit for things you had no part in
sorry, Dude, but you are generalizing just like you accuse Quantrill of doing. There is nothing wrong with "nationalism". It is the idea of loving your country, and being proud of it, and wanting the best for it. I am a nationalist in that sense. I want the absolute best for the US, because I firmly believe that it is the best nation on earth.
Not perfect, by any stretch of the imagination, but better than any other country I've experienced.
But, that nationalism includes ALL Americans... no matter their race, color, religious belief system.... whatever. That is why I am all for immigration..... LEGAL immigration.
I have no use for those that want to crash the gates to suck up all the benefits of being an American, without any investment or intention of
becoming an American. President Teddy Roosevelt said it perfectly....
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”