Can you please not take HN threads into ideological or nationalistic (or regional) flamewar? We already had to ask you this once recently.

Even if you're right, this is the worst way to bring it up, unless you want everyone to get even more rigid in their pre-existing views and even angrier about them. What good does that do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

America has an exceptionally large amount of immigrants from everywhere in the world (America gains from brain drain elsewhere).

This has an effect on culture. Not a very surprising finding on the face of it.

Yes all the settlers were "genocidal" and its totally not a personality study of people live in the mountain states.

> This article is a pile of American exceptionalist BS.

Written by British people.