[muawiyah]

Look, in the United States the Gypsy culture has been integrated. There have been African-American Gypsies ever since slave days, and although they don't regularly "steal" infants, more than one unwanted baby has been passed on to them. Sometimes they pass them back!

There are also varying degrees of sophistication among the families. Some of them constitute a "lawyer caste", for example. At least one became an elected judge in Marion County, Indiana many years ago. I learned how to split dollar bills from his grandchildren.

Then there's the Waltons ~ not that they're Gypsies, but then neither are the Tysons, the Williams', and all those other rich guys from West Central Arkansas (where a gazillion of them eventually settled ~ once the authorities in Oklahoma Territory figured out they weren't really Indians).

Believe it or not there are independent conmen with no history of Gypsy ancestry who prey on the elderly. No group of humanity is free of having thieves! Gypsies have no monopoly in that regard.

[norton]

"Gypsies have no monopoly in that regard."

A little defensive are we?

I'll say it again - not worth the air they breathe.