1690, William Penn’s fleet.
Descendant’s from Saint Patrick’s Brigade!
Would have thought Zack Taylor finished off that lot.
Probably a lot more than 50% of the population has ancestors who were in the US in 1790. There was a huge amount of immigration in the 19th century and early years of the 20th century, but a lot of children and grandchildren of German, Irish, Italian, Slavic, Jewish, Scandinavian, and other immigrants married people who had ancestors here in 1790. Most black Americans had ancestors in the US in 1790.
now because we are forced into this implied contract...pay taxes and you'll have some support when you are older and we'll keep the roads and hospitals working....they are STEALING from our heritage as taxpayers...
my parents are gone to heaven but they got such a pittance in SS...
none of us got sent to school for free...
we had no free lunches nor summer camps nor free health care..
and yet the illegals waltz in here and get immediately the best of everything...
i'll bet most freepers know people from the Phillipines or Viet Nam or Poland or Russia that had to save and save and save to be able to bring their extended families here...it took yrs to afford it...
No one has an issue with immigrants, just come here legally and Love America!
I hate that!!! You don't 'win' a Medal of Honor. It sounds like something 0bama would say.
She's pi$$ed off about The Wall. I agree with her 1000%.However,she blames DJT and I,not having a deep understanding of why it's failed so far,am not sure who to blame.However,I am inclined to blame the Rat Party...but if someone can convince me that it's DJT's fault I might reconsider my position.
Is it racist of me to ponder that of all the immigrant aliens I’ve met, the ones from south of the border were unskilled or dumb as bricks? The ones I knew that came from Europe or Asia were skilled and talented, and many were genius level. I’ve yet to meet any from south of the border who were geniuses. Some I met from Russia, Ukraine and Holland were extremely intelligent, having held scientific jobs where they came from. We get the dregs from latin America south of the border. Note I’m not saying latinos are dumb, just that the smart ones aren’t the ones coming here.
Maybe, maybe not. But once the Irish were here, they had to assimilate. And there was no welfare. Things are different now.
Maybe, maybe not. But once the Irish were here, they had to assimilate. And there was no welfare. Things are different now.
“By the 1950s, the Irish were outearning other Americans.”
Largely because they took over the civil service of most big cities. My one time Irish mother in law once told me growing up in the depression era NYC the choices for jobs were cop, fireman, bartender, priest or gangster, and at one time she had as least one brother doing each. The gangster brother ran numbers for a while then became a fireman.
Yes they are.
My Grandfather came from Italy in the early 20th century, he came as a mine safety inspector. When he came to Pennsylvania, he worked in the mines, learned English and built 8 homes before moving to the copper mines of Minnesota, where he built 10 homes. If the rumor is true 15 of the homes are still standing. One was incorperated into another house, one was torn down for a highway (in the 1960s) and one was destroyed by fire/flood (Hurricane Agnes)
All my ancestors were already here before the Revolution. Many were English and came here over a decade before the vaunted Mayflower, to Jamestown Virginia. Others were later in the 1600’s. A few came as late as the early 1700’s, German-speaking from the Palatinate, areas that would be in modern-day France, etcetera. Not an immigrant in the bunch. All of them were Original Citizens with the exception of the few Cherokee, and they were here well before any English settlers or attempted settlements.
This “nation of immigrants” thing is nonsense, intended to deflect any criticism of modern immigration policy which has been just bizarre since 1965, utterly counterproductive to a prosperous and self-sufficient populace. It’s as if we want to drag our nation down by taking on all the unproductive people of the world, i.e. future Democrats.
Gee this is a tough one.
My ancestors were related to Columbus so do I qualify?
Also, in the article, she says the Italians brought organized crime to America.
News flash Ann: there was already organized crime here in America doing the same types of crimes the Mob does (gambling, prostitution, loan sharking, alcohol, drugs, all victimless crimes of choice).
But I guess the Italians did it more efficiently and the US government must have taken lessons from them