How much KoolAid do you drink ? <| sep |> Sure , sure . Some characters are more obviously European , while others could be envisioned that way . I am delightedly intrigued by an Indian Montgomery . Why not ? My impression from the books is that , for the most part , anyone ' s ethnicity might be a variety of things and they ' re up for grabs . To my mind , they drew on this for the series Poe and Josephine are black , and Monty is Indian . However this can be seen as either an Englandlike diversity or Americanlike diversity , I suppose . I ' m happy mostly all characters sound and seem American , but I am hoping some don ' t , as you suggest . I used to think of the story as Americanesque , but I suppose it ' s more ambiguous than that . Maybe what we have here is an America that never separated from England or something to that effect , a nonrevolutionary or alterrevolutionary American nation . I ' m American , I ' m from West Virginia , I ' ve lived Florida for a long time as well .