One thing in that book I have been working on is a bit about how white settlers displace Natives by claiming that they are "heritage Americans," or "Natives," in contradistinction to more recent arrivals. As the OP demonstrates, it is not cool.
Zeb LarsonIt is kind of amazing watching the whole project of whiteness fray: the moment anybody with too ethnic a name steps out of line, these jackasses morph straight into Know-Nothings. It is absolutely a snake eating its own tail.