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"Pudentame" <no.one@no.were.invalid> wrote in message 
news:_119h.55097$HD6.35988@tornado.southeast.rr.com...
> 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.
>

Right.

Cary was settled by people from New Jersey trying to reinvent the same 
highly taxed planning and zoning nightmare they created there to a new 
and undeveloped area using the latest technology and a more restricted 
architectural style and colour scheme.