Richard Hofstadter: "Petani Amerika, yang kepemilikannya tidak begitu...

"Petani Amerika, yang kepemilikannya tidak begitu luas seperti milik kakek atau sekecil petani, yang psikologinya Protestan dan borjuis, dan yang politiknya kecil-kapitalis daripada tradisionalis, tidak punya alasan untuk berbagi pandangan sosial dari kelas pedesaan Eropa. Di Eropa tanah terbatas dan sayang, sementara tenaga kerja berlimpah dan relatif murah; di Amerika rasio antara tanah dan tenaga kerja terbalik."

--- Richard Hofstadter

Versi Bahasa Inggris

The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant, whose psychology was Protestant and bourgeois, and whose politics were petty-capitalist rather than traditionalist, had no reason to share the social outlook of the rural classes of Europe. In Europe land was limited and dear, while labor was abundant and relatively cheap; in America the ratio between land and labor was inverted.