The Detroit area also has a large concentration of the offspring of a generation of hillbillies who, along with African-Americans from the South, moved there between WWII and '60s to work in the defense and auto plants. Most of the remainder are of German, Scandinavian, Polish or Italian heritage. The descendants of those who may have been around to fight in the Civil War are a tiny minority.seamusTX wrote:Also the people of Michigan are not Yankees. They are mostly descendants of 19th- and early 20-century European immigrants and African-Americans. The Detroit area has the largest concentration of recent Arab immigrants in the U.S.
- Jim