My reply, so far as I recall Ebbie, went

PIFFLE!? dear Ebbie ~ Why,
You will make me cry.
Piffle?
Sniffle!

... to which you replied simply & charmingly

:)

{Which is not to say, Ebbie & Bill, that I fail entirely to take your points; my requotation of the formulation was hedged about with "from one pov" &c. But it were surely idle to deny that these phenomena were part of the complex melting pot of how America became what it is.}

♥♫❤Michael❤♫♥