像民主党一词一样，美国一词开始于一个称呼，前者指的是一个劣等的省级生物，后者是一个对群众的粗暴和无意识的异想天开的人。
(The term American, like the term democrat, began as an epithet, the former referring to an inferior, provincial creature, the latter to one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses.)