Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over 200 years ago. We're the first nation in the world not formed around an ethnic tribe that's lived in a place forever. That founding idea was genius, and we've been working things out ever since,. striding relentlessly toward that jeffersonian ideal. But how true is it? In the last episode, we saw that 14 years after we'd declared to the world we hold these truths, the Congress made its first actual laws. And those laws said something different, this is a white man's country. So which is it? We have two national characters, not one, and theyare always