Dont remember any in the South
I do, but that was about 75/70 years ago in northern Arkansas. They'd come through the tiny rural town in which I grew up, wagons pulled by horses. Camp at the fairgrounds for awhile. Do odd jobs, then move on.
Also, my paternal grandmother who lived outside Shefflield, Alabama, used to talk about the gypsies who'd come through that area.
When I lived in los Angeles, it was not at all unusual to see the Williams gypsies doing their "driveway" repair scam and the women scamming out the drivers at the freeway on ramps, using their kids as shills. .
There was an interesting movie made in 1978 called
King of the Gypsies staring Sterling Hayden, Eric Roberts, and Susan Sarandon. Take a look if you can find it.
L.W.
