Likewise with the credal state, the Soviet Union, but in reverse. Communism, an internationalist creed, eventually had to fall back on a warped patriotism to sustain itself in it’s base of operations even as it continued to export credal revolution worldwide.

The U.S., an artificial political construct upon which a nationalist creed has been superimposed, seeks to export it’s ‘Americanist’ creed through miitary conquest supposedly designed to spread democracy around the globe. The interesting thing here is that, unlike revolutionary France or the Soviet Union, which exported creeds that were mainly political or economic, the Americanist creed is also partly cultural, as it seeks to ‘Americanise’ the world by whatever means, thus proving that it’s internationalism is firmly based on imperial nationalism.

We dont even have to consider how the credal state, National Socialist Germany, tried to create a multinational European order.

It appears that Calhoun’s statement about there being no difference between centralisation at home and empire abroad is all too true.

What cannot be missed is how, in the long run, Southron identity has been reinforced by all this, giving the South a chance to go it’s own way, instead of merging with the North as it might have done had there been no trouble between the two regions. Likewise, the historical development not only has been destructive to any sense of real Northern identity or culture, but even destructive to local and regional identities in the North, such as New England. However, if New England, the Midatlantic, and the Midwest could be cut free as independent republics, I think they would, in time, develop or re-establish real cultural and national identities of their own.

America has never been a ‘credal’ nation, and to think so is delusion, but even so, it is also not really a nation at all, and never has been. It is a political construct, out of which a true culture and nationality might have emerged through shared contacts and history, but failed to do so. Lincoln and his supporters among the cultural imperialists in New England, along with tariff imposing business elites in the Northeast, made what they tried to impose on everyone actually impossible in the end, by tryng to create a false ‘America’ by force rather than letting a real America grow naturally.

The “American nation” died when it became prevalent to set Southern Scot against Southern Black against Midwestern German against Louisiana Cajun.

That is, to reiterate my point: the American nation was destroyed with the Whiggish Reconstruction.

And it can never be reclaimed. To this day, to be an “American” is to submit to the Whiggish vision of America international imperialism; and modern American “multiculturalism” is an assault upon Jacksonian Democracy.