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To: marshmallow
Must not have read your history very carefully.

"Massachusetts Bay and parts adjacent" were Puritan. They banned Christmas, Roger Williams, and Morton of Merrymount, infected the Indians with smallpox, burned witches on "spectral evidence", and otherwise annoyed decent people.

The Middle Atlantic states were Presbyterian (and Quaker and Moravian in the case of Pennsylvania).

The South was Anglican (and Catholic in the case of Maryland).

Nice try. Take one of the free brochures on your way out.

28 posted on 02/07/2008 8:53:54 AM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: AnAmericanMother
The Puritan legacy to America is not synonymous with the geographical localization of its adherents.

It exceeded that by far.

30 posted on 02/07/2008 9:05:15 AM PST by marshmallow
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