So soon?

Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England.

—From Thesouthernhistorian45

“New England is a finished place….It is the first American civilization to be finished, to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilIzation, the first permanent civilization in America.’’

Historian and essayist Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) in the March 1932 Harper’s Magazine.