Modern day traveling Gypsies are the descendants of Cain who was banished from "God's country" for killing his brother Abel and cursed to migrate from place to place. By standing with the sons of Cain, the narrator is saying he is also an outcast who is not welcome in God's Country.
Modern day traveling Gypsies are the descendants of Cain who was banished from "God's country" for killing his brother Abel and cursed to migrate from place to place. By standing with the sons of Cain, the narrator is saying he is also an outcast who is not welcome in God's Country.