Continued. . .

Like everywhere else in the United States there were two parallel worlds operating intimately and living separately. The white descendants of the Scots, the Irish, the Germans, the Italians, and the English that came here lived their daily lives according to strict codes of survival and contemporary standards of conduct. Though they were isolated from much of the rest of America as it developed, the social standards were much the same as the rest of the country. That they may have been viewed as privileged or abusive by their neighbors was never considered. Certain that they were living righteous lives, they behaved as their grandparents showed them and they claimed biblical support for the conduct of their lives.