Posted on 08/23/2023 10:46:04 AM PDT by wastedyears
Yes. HSV, Ala.
Just a ton of things going on...technology stuff, industrial assembly, etc. At some point three months ago....they hit 1.5-percent unemployment. I think even BK/McDonalds have problems now hiring because anyone with marginal skills can do better than the $8 or $9 an hour routine for burger-flipper.
What hubris. I actually did laugh out loud. Bless your heart.
Please provide your research for this “fact.” I have attended a multitude of genealogical conferences and a common seminar topic is immigration routes. North to South was fairly uncommon, so your claim that “most” of the Southern families are made up from Northern stock is just fantasy on your part. The majority of those who arrived prior to the Revolution were immigrants that arrived in the southern port cities at Virginia, Wilmington, Charleston and further south in Georgia. This includes the massive number of Scots who arrived in North Carolina and Georgia after Culloden in 1745 and the Highland Clearances that followed.
Following the Revolution, the majority of migration out of the Northeast went due west through the Ohio Valley and into the Great Lakes region. Yes, some traveled down into the Cumberland Gap, but it certainly was not the majority of migrants as you claim. Mostly this was due to the conditions of roads, which south of Maryland were very swampy and practically impassible, not to mention most fertile Southern land had already been snapped up by earlier arrivals. Land claims were being handed out to war veterans, and for those in the North, most of that was going into the lands west of Pennsylvania, while most of the North Carolina and Virginia veterans were given grants in Tennessee and Kentucky.
Any Yankees that arrived in the South after the Civil War are called a lot of things (most not appropriate for this forum), but they are not considered true Southerners, even if they stayed and raised families. Sorry to break such a painful truth to you, but there it is. And you are correct in that current migration patterns from both the destroyed economies in the rustbelt Northeast and the illegal invasion from Central America are now overrunning the Southern states and have been since the 1980s, doing even more damage than Sherman did. That isn’t even in question. So your wife’s grandmother, your sister’s husband, etc. — not Southerners. Never have been and never will be.
Okay, I don't know the percentages of Southerners whose ancestors arrived in the North, but I do know that most Southerners descend from Northerners who migrated to the South in the past 400 years.
Oh! And I forgot. My son-in-law's father's family migrated from Connecticut to New York to Nebraska to California and thence to the South. And his mother's family were South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. And he was born in Georgia. I don't know how to break the news to him that he's not a Southerner. What shall I do? Oh the horror!
FWIW, I wasn’t a damnyankee. I’d just moved back from Japan at the time. But it was 2002 and the labor market was not as active as it is now.
Here is one road colonists used to head south from Philadelphia in the mid-1700s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wagon_Road
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