Who's More British...

[limey]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

Those who came to America from England in the years leading up to 1776 did so voluntarily. ....

Except
1) the Protestant fathers who were forced to leave England in order to have the freedom to practice their religion; and
2) the Scottish crofters who were forced to leave their homes and often their native land by English landowners to make way for sheep-farming (I concede a lot of these went to Canada, and after 1776 ...)

[SteveDallas]

Originally Posted by limey

Except
1) the Protestant fathers who were forced to leave England in order to have the freedom to practice their religion; and
2) the Scottish crofters who were forced to leave their homes and often their native land by English landowners to make way for sheep-farming (I concede a lot of these went to Canada, and after 1776 ...)

Well taken. My point was that the population wasn't made up entirely, or almost entirely, of convicted criminals.