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> Are you arguing that Democrats are trying yo conserve the demographics of today?

Not at all - that would require closing the border.

> Or that Republicans are trying to conserve, or really regress back to, the demographics of the past?

Yes.

> As far as countries go, how do you define them if not with maps and paperwork?

I think we agree on this point. Yes, countries are defined with maps/paperwork/borders, but when I said "what makes a country", I meant it in the sense of what makes it unique or different, what gives it its character. Certainly territory is part of that, but the larger, much more important part, are its people, i.e. the nation.