No. Proximity isn’t the point.
Country is covenant. You can leave and still carry it. Plenty of expats are more American in their bones than people who never left the zip code.
The Founders didn’t stop being English by geography. They stopped being English because the covenant broke.
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2026-06-02 18:54:13 UTC
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