Thoughts on “ORIGIN OF THE ANGLO-AMERICANS, AND IMPORTANCE OF THIS ORIGIN IN RELATION TO THEIR FUTURE CONDITION”

   In this excerpt Tocqueville makes the distinction between the populations that settled the North, and those that settled the South of the United States. The southern colonies such as Virginia were populated by prospectors from the lower classes of society… Read moreThoughts on “ORIGIN OF THE ANGLO-AMERICANS, AND IMPORTANCE OF THIS ORIGIN IN RELATION TO THEIR FUTURE CONDITION”