re: #8 Destro

I found a quote from Benjamin Franklin where he called Penn. Germans “swarthy” compared to the white Anglo-Saxons.

I have always found this comment bizarre. It would be difficult to find cultures more closely related genetically than the English and Germans. The English are Germans, as even Herr Hitler understood. The Angles who gave them their name subjugated the highly populated lowlands along with Saxons and Frijians and drove the native Celts into the fringes.