  Another problem with dividing up America by ethnicity is that it'll result in Balkanization of the country. We'd basically be saying German-Americans should consider themselves Germans, Irish-Americans should consider themselves Irish. I think a better system would be to have all Whites in America consider themselves Americans and be loyal to the nation they're living in.  I agree. The last thing we need is an America divided up by ethnicity, that will only lead to problems. Most Americans are ethnically mixed to begin with. Americans are Americans.      There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.   â Theodore Roosevelt, speech before the Knights of Columbus at New York (1915)