calfoxwc Posted April 18, 2015 Report Share Posted April 18, 2015 This is excellent: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/frank-capras-america-and-ours/?utm_source=housefile&utm_medium=email&utm_content=mar2015&utm_campaign=imprimis&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--2FrL93V_13ZQPN-E-2AfsnmREp1VPy4C4B2Cke1jallHcfjPujevGyMGq_0OI3UWsCLtLtSP_Ak-T4RcySSUSA6Sqhg&_hsmi=17160685 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohican Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 A long read that helps you understand the U.S. Albion's Seed - David Hacket Fischer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed The four migrations are discussed in the four main chapters of the book: East Anglia to MassachusettsThe Exodus of the English Puritans (Pilgrims influenced the Northeastern United States' corporate and educational culture)[3]The South of England to VirginiaDistressed Cavaliers and Indentured Servants (Gentry influenced the Southern United States' plantation culture)[4]North Midlands to the DelawareThe Friends' Migration (Quakers influenced the Middle Atlantic and Midwestern United States' industrial culture)[5]Borderlands to the BackcountryThe Flight from North Britain (Scotch-Irish, or border English, influenced the Western United States' ranch culture and the Southern United States' common agrarian culture)[6]Fischer includes satellite peoples such as Welsh, Scots, Irish, Dutch, French, Germans, Italians and a treatise on Black slaves in South Carolina. Fischer covers voting patterns and dialects of speech in four regions which span from their Atlantic colonial base to the Pacific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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