I guess we have a PC term for gypsies now.
Not PC. "Travelers" is a very old term . "Gypsies" is ethnically exclusive. "Travelers" also includes other groups who live the same way, predominantly Irish and Scottish or just "Celtic." There are several large clans based in the Carolinas that fan out over the east and midwest.
Yes there is, but it's "Roma". Look up "Roma people".
Well, no, actually -- Gypsies are the swarthy, mysterious, colorful-wagon fortune-telling types. I think of Travelers as Celts -- generally blonds and redheads and brunettes and freckled skin, like a Scot. They're called "Tinkers" in Britain.
Think of living in a mega-extended family with the nosiest in-laws you ever had, and where arranged marriages with first cousins, which repels us now but has been perfectly legit for most of our Western history, just FYI. :^) It always fries me when people are ashamed to admit that their grandparents were first cousins, or some such thing. It was accepcted, honorable practice up until what, about 120 years ago?
Anyway, the Traveler clans are mega extended families, born and bred to con. They settle all together in an area in large luxury apartment complexes. In our place, they took up something like about 25 percent of the units. Their sons never go to school, the girls are educated up to about 8th grade, and they travel from town to town. One traveler-chasing cop said that's why the graveyards are so important to them. You can see lots of Williamson tombstones in certain L.A. graveyards, and the funerals are elaborate in the extreme.