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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some think they are aristocrats. A family I knew from Charleston was like this. They seemed like they believed with all their hearts that they were just finer specimens of humanity.

Read Albion's Seed. Some colonists were [b]landed gentry from England[/b] and that influenced the culture thereafter which was very different than New England.

Georgia was a penal colony, no? [/quote]

I think I did read that, ages ago.
But if you are landed gentry *with money* you stay at home in the Olde Country in your pile and with your money. There's something impoverished about these "aristocrats" that had them seeking their fortunes in the Americas. I guess they still had to keep up appearances, though!?! ;-)[/quote]
They were not impoverished in these cases. That's the difference. I believe they were second sons and this was a way to create wealth. The plantation farms made a lot of money. But I get your point. I think there was always Anglophilia and imitation of their religious and social lives just because they believed this was a superior way of life whereas New Englanders and Philadelphians were separatists who wanted a different culture. [/quote]

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