"educate yourself shitlord" coming from a guy saying this about a country which is so different when it comes to the continental and coastal part of the country that they are even genetically less related to each other than to neighboring groups (continental Croats to Hungarians and coastal Croats to Italians).
Yeah, nigger, they're still Croats. By your dumbass "logic", since my ancestry is a mix of Scots-Irish and German (AKA the people that settled the majority of the Appalachians), but a lot of North Carolinians on the coast have English and Welsh ancestry (most of the crews on oceangoing ships were back in the 18th century), we're just as different.
Oh wait, we
are, because the coast/Outer Banks is a completely different place from the Appalachians! Almost like Europoors
aren't more "culturally diverse" than Americans...
I heard Americans used to think of themselves more as just united states (rather than the United States) before the Civil War.
You heard correctly. Before the Civil War, states basically acted like independent countries that operated under one (sort of) centralized authority. That was the beauty of the American Republic, that different states weren't necessarily bound by laws that didn't suit them, and thus each state could make their own laws for their own situations. This is also why most of the rest of the country fucking despises California, because through sheer mass they push through bullshit shitlib laws that fuck over everyone else.
If you were to ask someone from each state what they identified as, they'd go with their home state first and American second, and there's a lot of that cultural sentiment still left over.
Also, they use "bloody" as a cuss? That shows the British influence.
Even then, they don't use it correctly. "FAK U BLOODY!" isn't proper use. "You bloody wanker!" is.