On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:58:57 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Under the logical assumption that "folks with money are automatically
going to be healthy", it was Lady Liberty's "tired, poor, hungry,
huddled masses" that were quarantined on Ellis Island. The upper
classes were
briefly interviewed at the head of the gangway and then allowed
directly into the US.

That's 'cuz they said they were Democrats.

Hmmm - good point.

Well, I'm married to a DAR type.

My Dad's family came to Salem around the same time.