and so you had a whole mix of people and their kids who got used to being around people who at first did not seem much like them but then got to know each other and get along , and you had all sorts of people who did what it took to get a job done , and you got people with names like carmelita cortez , american by way of flotillas , and you had them in catholic parishes in the proximity of waning , pious , dully patriotic people like blaise bohrs and his family , who had been in the usa for generations but had never come close to being in charge of anything .