Which, it just so happens, is the pet argument of racists and white supremacists Who Should Know Better, and who better to advance such illogic than Ku Kluxer apologist David Duke, who has been quoted in the Southern Poverty Law Centre's Hatewatch blog as suggesting that

[Barack] Obama will be a signal, a clear signal for millions of our people ... Obama is like that new big dark spot on your arm that finally sends you to the doctor for some real medicine. … Obama is the pain that let's [sic] your body know that something is dreadfully wrong. Obama will let the American people know that there is a real cancer eating away at the heart of our country and Republican aspirin will not only not cure it, but only masks the pain and makes you think you don't need radical surgery. … My bet is that whether Obama wins or loses in November, millions of European Americans will inevitably react with new awareness of their heritage and the need for them to defend and advance it. 

Such a notion of "racial identity=national identity" as is encapsulated in the racist acronym ORION (as in "Our Race Is Our Nation"), which could easily be right out of apartheid South Africa, come to think of it.

But when you get right down to it, perhaps we should do well to recall the warning from history known as the German-American Bund, which the Nazi regime back in Germany supported with significant financial and moral backing by hoping to establish Nazi beachheads among German expatriate communities across the United States and in cities with substantial German-American populations like New York, Chicago and Milwaukee.

In any case, the Steuben League, which was traditionally the most conservative of German-American societies, expressed serious reservations about the Bund and its use by the Nazis for peddling influence and support for their cause.

But in the end, it was the Bund's president, Fritz Julius Kuhn (himself an American citizen of German descent), as would be the Bund's downfall: Rumours of Herr Kuhn diverting Bund funds to personal use (and Kuhn's defence that, by virtue of his absolute leadership, he was above reproach, legal and otherwise) would be enough to bring them down towards the end of 1939 ... but not before a rather notorious rally @ Madison Square Garden in New York as was replete with anti-Semitic comments which would degenerate into fisticuffs and violence. And soon after Pearl Harbour sent America into World War II, Bund members would be interned for "aiding the enemy," among them Herr Kuhn, who would subsequently be deported to Germany.

Remember, boys and girls: We ignore history @ our own peril. Even if there are arguments about equating "racial identity" with "national identity."