Southern DU'ers: Tell me about the South

[rrneck]

22. I expect so.

Especially now what with all them newfangled cars n' such.

Here's a map from Wiki



I was going more by the overall "personality" of the south, which certainly changes from place to place. And indeed, even though I live in one of those red counties, it ain't the south.

But fundamentalism and authoritarianism run strong in the south from the Presbyterianism of the Scots Irish.

One Hessian officer said, "Call this war by whatever name you may, only call it not an American rebellion; it is nothing more or less than a Scotch Irish Presbyterian rebellion."[41] A British major general testified to the House of Commons that "half the rebel Continental Army were from Ireland".[50] Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, with its large Scotch-Irish population, was to make the first declaration for independence from Britain in the Mecklenburg Declaration of 1775.

The Scotch-Irish "Overmountain Men" of Virginia and North Carolina formed a militia which won the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780, resulting in the British abandonment of a southern campaign, and for some historians "marked the turning point of the American Revolution".[51][52]

As I understand it, the Renaissaince pretty much missed lowland Scotland. Apparently somebody in London wrote a memo on a cow to inform us since reiving cattle was the primary industry there. But unfortunately we screwed up and stole a blank cow and never got the message.

You're right about the borderlanders. The Scots Irish might even be traced back to the celts, but that's iffy. I have a fancy though that Hadrian dealt with my ancestors long enough and finally said, "Fuck it. I'm tired of dealing with you people. Stay on the other side of this wall". Then later, king James dealt with us for a while and said, "Fuck it, I'm tired of dealing with you people. Go to Ulster and run the Irish out of Ireland." Then after a while the Irish got tired of us and said, "Fuck it, we're tired of dealing with you people. Go to America." When we landed here all of the rich, clean organized Germans and plantation owners said, "Fuck it, were tired of dealing with you people. Go to Appalachia and fight indians". Then we became 'Muricans. Praise Jesus, we're home.