Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, there is a French farmer by the name of
Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. He immigrated to the United States from
Normandy, France, in 1759, and he settled in the Hudson Valley. He
married an American woman. The astounding diversity of those who
settled around him, his fellow farmers, was shocking to him. He said:
It is ``a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans,
and Swedes.''
There was one family he knew who had an English grandfather, a Dutch
grandmother, an Anglo-Saxon son who had a French wife, whose four sons
all married women who were from different places of different
nationalities.
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