“Virginia and Massachusetts were the two original germs, from which the great majority of American populations has sprung; and no two people, speaking he same language and coming from the same country, could have been more dissimilar in education, taste and habits and even in natural instincts, than the adventurers who settled these two colonies…

These two peoples seemed to have an instinctive repugnance, the one to another.”   Raphael Semmes