lucy said:
Bunch of Teutonic Catholics got their butts kicked by the Orthodox Slavs, nothing to do with us Anglo Saxon Protestants. The mosey 'n saunter, not the friggin goose-step, is our stride. We used to keep one or two around to shoe the horses and make gears.
The Teutons, I mean. The Slavs we hired to muck out the stables.
Although, the place did start going downhill when the Presbyterians and Episcopalians and Quakers lost their ground level foothold, and Baptists started to outbreed the Methodists even. The Catholics and Jews we don't talk about. The Lutherans don't talk at all.
Chances are, if you are an American, you live in a county and speak English and mistrust the booklearning you revere and harbor a suspicion that only the feral man is truly free. If your family has been around a while you have at least one ancestor who thought painting their house was an affectation, if you have any Red heritage you're kind of proud of it, a shotgun wedding was just a wedding to half your family tree, your family motto would be "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke" if the concept of a family motto made any sense to you, and your odds of really (
really) digging bagpipe "music" are higher than almost anyone else's on the planet. So yeah, it's a WASP country in a basic sense. Except for New Orleans and Miami and a chunk of New Mexico. We might need a special category for California, too.