10-25-2023, 08:50 PM
(10-24-2023, 09:47 PM)General Ceel Wrote: Around here (Northeastern Pennsylvania and New York State) there was certainly an Irish, Welsh and English immigrant impact in the 1800's. If you look at the headstones in the old cemeteries, they came to coal mine, logging and digging canals. But Eastern and Sothern European culture, which came much later, are more noticeable in the food and music my my immediate area. There is a "Sons of Italy" group just down the street, and a Ukrainian Catholic Church nearby. Polish influences are still pretty evident within a few hours drive. Polka and Polish food are still a thing, especially with the older set.
Where I live is actually pretty bland culturally. In terms of ethnicity, the county I live is in 94.7% white. There are pockets of the county that have a high density of a specific nationality, a town in the west of the county has a very high Polish community and a town in the south has a significant number of Portugese. However, the majority of the place is white British. To be honest, we're often the butt of the inbred jokes, similar to your swampland areas. I'm lucky in that both my parents were born outside of the county and moved here prior to having a family, so I can duck the six-fingered, your sister-is-your-mother taunts!
