The word naturalization refers only to people who were not born in the USA.   Try this link:     It says nothing about the citizenship of those born in the USA. Your argument is hogwash. So either way you wanna look at it the only people who were ever intended to be able to immigrate to the US and become citizens were FREE WHITE MEN of good moral standing. Right? Plus when it comes to people who were born in the US, that document I presented excludes slaves, free african americans, and asians. Regardless of whether they were born on US soil or not. It is also a historical fact that Abraham Lincoln intended for the slaves once they were freed to be repatriated back to Africa, which is why he set up the colony of Liberia. Even the great civil rights hero Abe Lincoln was a White Separatist. But the majority of blacks refused to go back to Africa, so rather than deal with the problem of forcing millions of blacks onto ships to Liberia, they decided to just spare the trouble and settle with segregation. The original KKK was formed partly in response to this refusal of the blacks to be repatriated to their ancestral homeland. Hence the saying: GO BACK TO AFRICA! You see...the blacks were supposed to return to Africa once they were granted their freedom, seriously.     I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.   -- September 18, 1858 - Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois  < Abe Lincoln really said that it is not a forgery. Sorry, Ole' Abe was a White Nationalist , like me :D   http://www.topicsites.com/abraham-lincoln/quotes.htm  You could find that quote on this site, and many others I am sure.