“However, broadly speaking, much of the support for Obama comes from descendants of postbellum immigrants who equate America with economic opportunity rather than descendants of antebellum immigrants whose ancestors came here for religious freedom or were sent here under a sentence of transportation (in lieu of death).”

Amen, Alexis. Bears repeating. After all, who threw the party that they all wanted to crash?

I see a philosophical split, though, that really cuts deeper: between those who came here for freedom and to remake themselves as citizens of the New World, and those who came here with a hit-the-lottery mentality, for the cash and prizes they imagined were here. Fortunately, we still attract the former type, but there are more and more of the latter these days.

Those who came here for freedom cherish our unique, constitutional republic. The latter all too easily become Looters.