Washington: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, while announcing his 2016 White House bid, today invoked the success story of his immigrant parents but once again distanced himself from his Indian roots by asserting that "we are all Americans" and not hyphenated Americans.

Forty four years ago, Jindal said, a young couple who had never before been on an airplane, left their home on the other side of the world to come to a place called America.