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::I have generally been favourable in my attitude towards the rebellious colonials. The States were being treated badly. Anyone who has browsed my hundreds of pages of history articles here would know me to be pretty-well straight up the middle. My beef isn't with the colonials, it is with the misuse of a word.
 
::I have generally been favourable in my attitude towards the rebellious colonials. The States were being treated badly. Anyone who has browsed my hundreds of pages of history articles here would know me to be pretty-well straight up the middle. My beef isn't with the colonials, it is with the misuse of a word.
 
:[[User:AlanE|AlanE]] ([[User talk:AlanE|talk]]) 02:48, 11 April 2016 (EDT)
 
:[[User:AlanE|AlanE]] ([[User talk:AlanE|talk]]) 02:48, 11 April 2016 (EDT)
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== Clarification ==
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The OED has for immigrant: "entrance into a country for the purpose of settling there". This suggestions that all but  [[American Indian|indigenous people]]s  are immigrants, including the earliest [[Thirteen colonies|colonist]]s, etc.
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