We are nothing but what we derive from the air we breathe, the climate we inhabit, the government we obey, the system of religion we profess, and the nature of our employment." .
Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crevecoeur describes the American settlers in four different categories. When he describe the settlers along the coast, he says "Those who live near the sea feed more on fish than on flesh, and often encounter that boisterous element. This renders them more bold and enterprising; this leads them to neglect the confined occupations of the land." These settlers are more sophisticated and more educated. They were leaders who needed to be around other people and were known as the "Framers of the Government." He describes those that settled more towards the middle settlements as "by far the most numerous, must be very different; the simple cultivation of the earth purifies them, both the indulgences of the government, the soft remonstrances of religion, the rank of independent freeholders, must necessarily inspire them with sentiments very little known in Europe among people of the same class." These were small towns that were predominately-farming communities. When talking about the ones who settled just outside the middle colonies, he says " If you recede still farther from the sea, you will come into more modern settlements; they exhibit the same strong lineaments in a ruder appearance. Religion seems to have less influence, and their manners are less improved. These were .
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people who were less Sophisticated and less educated. They were laid back and more independent. They did not like rules and laws. And finally he describes the settlers to the farthest from the coast as "there men seem to be placed still farther beyond the reach of government, which in some measure leaves them to themselves." These settlers were considered the wilderness types, renegades and outlaws.
