Anybody remember the Garrison Keeler monologue about the Rapture occurring - to the shock and dismay of both the Unitarians and the Baptists, the Unitarians were taken up, and the Baptists left behind. "Unitarians don't want Rapture -they want understanding!" It was one of the funniest pieces I have ever heard him do.

A lot of those Child ballads came over AFTER the puritans. The puritans of New England were some of the earliest, but not the most multitudiness of British Isles immigrants. Scotsmen, , Welshmen, Scots-Irish. Most of them quite hostile to Catholicism, but less so to the Anglicans. And they came much more because of economic conditions than seeking religious freedom.