By Ed SimonSpecial to The Washington PostA year before the Pilgrims made their famed journey to New England, signing the “Mayflower Compact” and thus inaugurating so many of the myths that we believe about our democratic origins, a very differenA year before the Pilgrims made their famed journey to New England, signing the "Mayflower Compact" and thus inaugurating so many of the myths that we believe about our democratic origins, a very different ship disembarked in that older English colony to the south, Jamestown.Read more on NewsOK.com