Actually the reason your Spanish ancestors brought in "Africans to pick our cotton" was the pesky aboriginal Indians insisted in dying because of their lack of imunity to Spanish measels and mumps. You didn't mention bringing in the Italians to collect our garbage and the Irish to walk the beats before we started issuing patrol cars freely. Geesh, can we cover any other stereotypes?

IMO the American work ethic is in fact a reality. It was typified during WWII by the mobilization of the American Women who went to work and turned the US from the 12th most productive nation on earth into the first in six years of war.

Publius