The frontier town discussion is an interesting one, since they are all different (Florida was once considered the same as the west). Mississippi is a state that’s preserved their history of the Jews in the state (at least in a book sense). I’ve read many stories of the wealthy businessmen sending their kids on long trips for various balls just so their kids can meet other Jews. Yet on the other hand, you’ll see a lot of counties and towns in the Deep South named after Jews who claimed to have converted.
I guess it depends on the person and city, as I have a hard time imagining the rich Jewish family marrying with the local sharecropper.
But, honestly, I think I’m going too far down the path, because there is a big difference between tracing someone from 1890 Utah and Ohio in 2010. I didn’t really mean to go this far back.
I just wonder why some peoples pedigrees are good enough for even the simplest anti-Semite, but it’s never good enough for this board. Seems sad to be unwanted by everyone for either being Jewish or not pedigreed enough.