>>>Hey, Dmitry. Your name wasn't exactly on the manifest of "The Mayflower", was it! There's many a name on this forum that would have been out of place with the "Founding Fathers"
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>>Terry;
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>>Oh yes, the Mayflower. A group of religious who came to the shores of what later became the United States, due to religious persecution in Europe. The first thing they did was to persecute Catholics. Thus began our national heritage of hating someone for whatever reason.
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>>The Separatists and Puritans were more afraid to lose their souls due to the presence of a Catholic, then their scalps to an Indian.
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>>Try reading the book by Upton Sinclair "The Jungle". Although it was written about 100 years ago it gives a contemporary view of life in the United States! Perhaps things just have not changed that much. Cheap labor, owe your soul to the company store and wait for the next wave of workers to replace you because they will accept a lower wage.
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>>Tom
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>Tom
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>The puritans came over and persecuted Catholics (of which I note you are one). Where did they find the Catholics? Go hunting for other such colonies?
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>Terry

Terry;

The Catholics came after the Puritans. I think that was around 1630 if I recall.

Tom