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Anglo-Saxon America
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Proper noun
The parts of the American continent colonized or historically controlled by Anglo-Saxon people, principally the USA and Canada.
en 1970 Celso Furtado Economic Development of Latin America: A Survey from Colonial Times to the Cuban Revolution 8 In 1800 the population of the United States and Canada combined was 6 million whereas that of Latin America was over 19 million. By 1900, Anglo-Saxon America had a population of 81 million and Latin America only 63 million.
en 1999 Mario Sáenz The Identity of Liberation in Latin American Thought 101 Nevertheless, during the nineteenth century there was a similar concern in both Anglo-Saxon America and Spanish America with "purification" of the blood
en 2006 Gary J Dorrien The Making of American Liberal Theology 319 The "manifest destiny" of Anglo-Saxon America was a favorite theme of Fourth of July orators
en white America.
en 1976 James Paul Rodechko Patrick Ford and His Search for America: A Case Study of Irish-American Journalism, 1870-1913 218 Excluded from Anglo-Saxon America, Irish-Americans
en 1998 Matthew Frye Jacobson Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race 51 from the compact trope of "the sea-divided Gael," to the poet's refusal of an "Anglo-Saxon" America because "you are not of the self-same race
en 2002 Donna R. Gabaccia Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History 132 Many expressed their desire to join Anglo-Saxon America by adopting their forms of Protestantism.
See also
en North America
en Central America
en South America
en Latin America
en WASP