“Once, aeons ago, I was asked to hold a lecture on the “formation of the American People”. Thus, I had to do research on the theme of migration to the US then and now. “
If you haven’t read “Albion’s Seed”, David Hackett Fischer, you really should. You’ll enjoy it. He writes about four migrations from Great Britain that formed the culture of Colonial America. My own roots are largely the “Cavalier” culture of southern England and the Borderland Scots-Irish.
Hello,
that’s a wonderful recommendation. Thanks a lot :-)
Furthermore, it shows an aspect of American immigration history I hadn’t been aware of. Wow.
What I had known about British immigration to the US was that Southern Whites have, on average, a far greater percentage of British ancestry that the average White American.
That is because the great European immigration waves from Europe from ca. 1860 to the 1920s did not touch the South very much; most of these immigrants went to the industrial cities in the North.
After all, that’s where the economy was booming and vast amounts of jobs could be found for applicants of practically every skill level :-)