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

[Cleita]

32. My grandmother was a Scotch-Irish person, a Carr. I don't know when they

corrected to Scots-Irish. Basically they are what yanks call hillbillies because they originally come from around Appalachia. I grew up around the music from that branch of the family when I was around them. My grandmother was a Democrat who kept chickens in her back yard and provided the neighbors with eggs and meat from the young roosters during WWII when those things were rationed. Her sister, my aunt, was a religious nut who tried to convert my mother and me to save us from the evil Catholics, which we were.

All in all, they were good and kind people in spite of their bigotry at times. Oh, my mom was Latina and so was I. I think painting them with a broad brush isn't right. I think the move towards being Republican is more brain washing by propaganda in the last fifty years than being ingrained in the culture.