Quote Originally Posted by SteveMetz View Post
Americans forget how prickly we were--we threw out occupiers who shared our culture and religion over the price of tea!
Kinda sorta.

Likely, most of my ancestors would have said no to sharing the same culture as the British. After about a hundred years, more or less, in Ulster they evidently felt that they were not Scottish enough to be Scottish, Irish enough to be Irish, or British enough to be British, so they decided to become Americans. Blame good King James I for that one.

Okay, so economics in 18th Century Ulster probably had something to do with emigrating too. Why spoil a nice thought?