"Instead of a trasformative nation with an adentity all its own, America increasingly sees itself as preservative of old identities. Instead of a nation composed of individuals making yheir own free choices, America increasingly sees itself as composed of groups more or less indelible in their ethnic character. The national ideal had once been e plurubus unum. Are we now to belttle unum and glorify pluribus? Will the center hold? or will the melting pot yield to the Tower of Babel?"

- From The Disuniting of America