Institutional Diversity Quotes
Eisenhower was clear on this point but the neoconservatives of the Republican party advocated just the opposite and decades later would influence American foreign policy to have a different view and aggressively export American democracy as in the Iraq War.
This parochial and sectional point of view was held much more strongly by the South and to a great extent, still is. We are all conflicted by wanting and American culture (that can be adopted by the world in globalization) and also wanting local customs, cultures, norms, policies and thought patterns to exist. However, there is inevitable conflict between the two, so it is a constant American source of debate, ebb and flow.