01-06-2017, 11:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-06-2017, 11:05 AM by Anthony '58.)
But the German liberals of 1848 did not resist. They came to Wisconsin, and Iowa, and South Dakota.
And this is a nation of runaways - including my own great-grandparents, who couldn't stand how the Northern Italians looked down on them. So they came to New York City - and, no accounting for taste, Philadelphia! LOL
Same goes for the Jews, who fled pogroms in Poland/Belarus/Ukraine/Russia for New York - and from there, Miami.
And the Irish? Instead of fighting for their freedom from the British, they found Boston more to their liking.
And this is a nation of runaways - including my own great-grandparents, who couldn't stand how the Northern Italians looked down on them. So they came to New York City - and, no accounting for taste, Philadelphia! LOL
Same goes for the Jews, who fled pogroms in Poland/Belarus/Ukraine/Russia for New York - and from there, Miami.
And the Irish? Instead of fighting for their freedom from the British, they found Boston more to their liking.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892