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Showing Original Post only (View all)So, what "Shithole" country did your ancestors come from? [View all]
Mine were Austro-Hungrians and were called the Hunkies who went to work in the Pennsylvania coal mines and later the steel/glass factories below Pittsburgh.
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I never understood why you left. The neighborhood went to hell and back afterwards. Now you can't
politicaljunkie41910
Jan 2018
#83
I beg to differ. "Shinola" the shoe polish came first before the luxury goods Shinola Detroit
politicaljunkie41910
Jan 2018
#144
Italy and Ireland. I got DNA from Other Shitholes, I mean, Garden Spots
TheOther95Percent
Jan 2018
#91
Lithuania (or Russia, depending on the year and the borders) and White Russia
no_hypocrisy
Jan 2018
#101
Scots-Irish from Northern Ireland in mid 1700s (paternal) & 1700s From England (maternal).
CottonBear
Jan 2018
#119
Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out! The hell's the matter with you?! Stupid!
Algernon Moncrieff
Jan 2018
#129