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jls wrote:
> Valeria Palmer wrote:
> 
>> or consult wikipedia, which says:
> 
> Whoa, Valeria.  You believe everything you read in that amateur rag?
> It had a monstrous libel against JFK's press secretary and when he
> tried to get it removed, the site's owner said all the entries are by
> anonymous amateurs.  The heartbroken old man had to get a court order
> forcing Bellsouth to provide him the identity of the publisher,
> whereupon he finally got the defamatory material removed.  It had
> accused him of being a guilty party in the Kennedy assassination, when
> he had been a faithful friend of Kennedy and was a pallbearer at his
> funeral.
>> Main article: History of South Carolina
>>
>> The colony of Carolina was settled by English settlers, mostly from
>> Barbados, sent by the Lords Proprietors in 1670, followed by French
>> Huguenots. The Carolina upcountry was settled largely by Scotch-Irish
>> migrants from Pennsylvania and Virginia, following the Great Wagon Road.
>> North Carolina was split off in 1712. Carolina became a royal colony in
>> 1729.
> 
> Oh, hell.  Tell it like it is.  It was settled by transported
> criminals, thousands and thousands of slaves, and cruel, greedy
> plantation owners.
> 
> And today it's still cracker land.
> 

You're confusing South Carolina with Georgia. Georgia did start as a 
penal colony. South Carolina (along with North Carolina) was started by 
colonists looking for fortune in the new world.

What became North Carolina had several distinct colonial in-migrations. 
The north-east coastal plain was settled by those expanding out of 
Jamestown and tidewater Virginia.

The lower Cape Fear was settled by Scots fleeing retribution following 
the abortive Jacobite rising seeking to restore the Stuart monarchs to 
the thrones of England & Scotland.

The western piedmont of NC and upland SC were settled by a mixture of 
settlers moving south from the mid-Atlantic colonies (parallel to the 
Appalachian mountains) and those moving west from the northeast coastal 
plain and the Cape Fear Valley.