This review points out some of the issues. http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v12/v12p114_Rosit.html … There are others. I think he got the Quaker stuff all wrong, because German immigration to Pennsylvania had a huge impact, as it did in the Midwest. Imma not even going to bring up Irish immigration
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No it does not, this is probably more of what I was thinking of: https://www.uncleguidosfacts.com/2015/07/the-southern-myth-of-cavalierregional.html?m=1 … But then everything is LARPing in a way
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this is pretty embarrassing
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And the belief in it, or trend or fad, starts getting ginned up in the 19th century as part of the cultural fight over slavery, and continues because it's real convenient.
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you're still not citing any evidence to support that position
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It's stuff like this: https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Virginia_The_Cavaliers_of_1834-1835 … A novel that popularizes something. I read Fischer's book when it came out. Which is a long time ago now. I like Fischer, his books "Paul Revere's Ride" and "Washington's Crossing" are top-notch.
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Do you have evidence that they were largely *right*? Take for example Jefferson Davis, his immigrant ancestor came from Wales to Philadelphia. By Albion's Seed, he should have gone from Wales to VA or the Carolinas. Exception that proves the rule? I dunno.
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Yes. We have Albion's Seed and it's bibliography. You were the one who jumped in and scoffed. If you want to overrule an existing bibliography you need to do better than blog posts that AGREE with it, plus one or two cherry picked outliers.
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