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'''Hyphenated American''' is phrase coined or popularized by Theodore Roosevelt in a 1915 speech to the Knights of Columbus. Roosevelt said:

'''Hyphenated American''' is phrase popularized by former president [[Theodore Roosevelt]] during World War I --at a time the U.S. was neutral and had not entered the war--to criticize Americans who had some loyalties to the countries of their ancestors. He used it only to attack German-Americans and Irish Americans (never to attack British Americans  who were demonstrating strong loyalties to Britain, which was at war with germany and was suppressing Ireland.  The issue proved highly political and contoversial, and hurt the Republican presidential candidate in 1916, [[Charles Evan Hughes]].  Hughes lost a very close election to [[Woodrow Wilson]] when German-American Republicans were suspicious that Hughes was supported by Roosevelt.

 

In a 1915 speech to the Catholic group the Knights of Columbus. Roosevelt said:

:There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism... a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

:There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism... a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

:For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic.<ref>[http://www.rpatrick.com/USA/americanism/ Roosevelt Advocates Americanism]</ref>

:For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic.<ref>[http://www.rpatrick.com/USA/americanism/ Roosevelt Advocates Americanism]</ref>

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