> Also, don't forget the portuguese: not as prominent as on HI, but still pretty common, eg Devin Nunes Absolutely (though it's specifically Azoreans)! And to

> Also, don't forget the portuguese: not as prominent as on HI, but still pretty common, eg Devin Nunes Absolutely (though it's specifically Azoreans)! And to that point, stereotypes do not take into account the historic diversity that Central California has had. Mexican, Okies, Portuguese/Azorean, Italian, German, Czech, Armenian, Chinese, Punjabi, Russian, and other settlers had an outsized influence on the development of Central California. And this itself highlights how Albion's Seed does not generalize well outside the Eastern Seaboard (nor did Fischer intend for his work to be applied that way - he only concentrated on New England, Virginia, the lower Delaware Valley/Philly, and Appalachia, not on the rest of the US.