I'm curious. Are there travel(l)ing people in the States like the ones over her in the UK - living in trailers & moving around in small groups, often the same family?If there are, do they face the same trouble with settled people? What do they do for a living?
Pubs in Milton Keynes have put up signs saying "no travellers" and the council have told them they're breaking the race relations laws, but given that most travellers here are English Irish or Scottish I don't think that would stand up. George Borrow, the English writer and general smart-arse know-all said in the 19th century that the only difference he could find between travellers who called themelves Romaniy and those who didn't was that the Rom's eat hedgehogs and the others don't! And of course the "gypsy" caravan was invented in the last century by a man who lived in a house but wanted to save money on his holidays.
Steve