One of America's biggest root problems: Scots-Irish culture

[Warpy]

31. Scots-Irish are different from plain old Irish

even the potato famine Irish who wanted to forget everything they'd seen in the home country before they had enough money to flee.

They used to be pro union, not so much now that traitors like Reagan, O'Reilly, Buchanan and other right wing schmucks have been working on them for decades. For some reason, the Protestant Scots Irish have been bigger suckers for this stuff, probably because the Irish have long learned to be skeptical of everything and everybody, especially of authoritarians.

There is no racism of any type noting that cultures can profoundly differ from each other. I don't buy the herder/warrior crap about the Scots Irish, most of whom were in the industrialized north. They do tend to be more authoritarian, probably because they periodically needed authority in the form of England to save their butts when the Irish got too uppity.

As with any statistical norm, there are always a lot of outliers, especially when you're talking about people in general, Celts in particular.

For an entertaining look at some of the differences, "An Everlasting Piece" is a place to start, Netflix probably has it and it's hilarious as well as instructive.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218182/