On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:01:08 -0800, LWG wrote
(in article ):

I think what Jay says makes a lot of sense.

The essence of America was that its immigrant population willingly abandoned
many or most aspects of the culture it left.

Well, there were a lot of reasons for that. Many Americans left Europe to get
away from all the feuding. The Scots may all have spoken Gaelic, but they
didn't get along with each other. :-)

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