by David Sims I SAW an Internet commenter’s thread promoting civic nationalism, and chimed in with some important facts of which his readers needed to become aware. * * * YOU WERE doing well, Dennis, until you started trying to distinguish nationalism from racism. Nationalism is about race, always. (If there’s a word for “allegiance to the state,” it doesn’t come to mind just now.) The key to understanding the meaning of nationalism correctly is found it the first three letters of that word: *nat.* It means birth, and it prefixes a number of words that should illustrate the principle...